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Edge's "Read Aloud"

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    I've mentioned Edge's "Read Aloud" function a few months back, saying it's actually tolerable as a text-to-speech reader. I like it 'cuz I can have it read news in the background while I'm doing something else that needs my actual focus. Lately...it's broken. It'll pause before going through an entire sentence. *Sometimes* it'll resume on its own, but most of the time it'll just sit there doing absolutely nothing, and I have to click on pause/play for it to resume, and then it might make it through another sentence before it pauses again. Refreshing the page and retrying generally doesn't help. The shortcut to it is Ctrl-Shift-U. Is anyone seeing this? I find this to be an actually useful feature, and I'd hate to give it up, especially since it's been working fine for months and months.

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      I've mentioned Edge's "Read Aloud" function a few months back, saying it's actually tolerable as a text-to-speech reader. I like it 'cuz I can have it read news in the background while I'm doing something else that needs my actual focus. Lately...it's broken. It'll pause before going through an entire sentence. *Sometimes* it'll resume on its own, but most of the time it'll just sit there doing absolutely nothing, and I have to click on pause/play for it to resume, and then it might make it through another sentence before it pauses again. Refreshing the page and retrying generally doesn't help. The shortcut to it is Ctrl-Shift-U. Is anyone seeing this? I find this to be an actually useful feature, and I'd hate to give it up, especially since it's been working fine for months and months.

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      Matthew Dennis
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      It seems to be working fine for me. BTW, I use this to proof-read documents/articles before release. Your ear detects a different set of errors than you eyes.

      "Mistakes are prevented by Experience. Experience is gained by making mistakes."

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        It seems to be working fine for me. BTW, I use this to proof-read documents/articles before release. Your ear detects a different set of errors than you eyes.

        "Mistakes are prevented by Experience. Experience is gained by making mistakes."

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        That's a good idea - except it means booting Edge, and I try to avoid that. :-D

        "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

        "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
        "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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          That's a good idea - except it means booting Edge, and I try to avoid that. :-D

          "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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          Meh. You know most of it's already running all the time, it's just the browser UI that won't show up until you click its icon...

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