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Finally, some progress on Sony's Text to Speech (self.Blind)
submitted by Orinks
Hello everyone,
I'm just gonna keep it short and sweet, since it's after 3 AM.
Sony, I assume it was them, anyway, seemingly out of nowhere, added Text to Speech support to the Netflix and Amazon Video apps!
Granted, it's there but it is a bit buggy, where sometimes you have to go back and forward because sometimes it'll read a letter on the keyboard as you scroll through it, but if you wait a few seconds, it won't read and you have to select it for it to read. Thus, you may have a bit of trouble signing in.
Once I finally signed in, however, a few seconds of lag followed by this kind of behavior continued with the app, where, if I was on the details page of a show, which has six items, sometimes it'll say "1 of 6 buttons" when scrolling through them fast, and not read the actual item. A way around this is to browse slowly, however the lag seems unavoidable at this time.
Keep in mind I've only tried the Netflix app thus far, though I did take a glance at the Amazon app just to see if any other apps other than Netflix got TTS.
I hope this means we'll see more from Sony as far as actually making the interface itself have more TTS.
I'm just gonna keep it short and sweet, since it's after 3 AM.
Sony, I assume it was them, anyway, seemingly out of nowhere, added Text to Speech support to the Netflix and Amazon Video apps!
Granted, it's there but it is a bit buggy, where sometimes you have to go back and forward because sometimes it'll read a letter on the keyboard as you scroll through it, but if you wait a few seconds, it won't read and you have to select it for it to read. Thus, you may have a bit of trouble signing in.
Once I finally signed in, however, a few seconds of lag followed by this kind of behavior continued with the app, where, if I was on the details page of a show, which has six items, sometimes it'll say "1 of 6 buttons" when scrolling through them fast, and not read the actual item. A way around this is to browse slowly, however the lag seems unavoidable at this time.
Keep in mind I've only tried the Netflix app thus far, though I did take a glance at the Amazon app just to see if any other apps other than Netflix got TTS.
I hope this means we'll see more from Sony as far as actually making the interface itself have more TTS.
Nighthawk321 2 points 6y ago
Hmm, very interesting. Hopefully they'll step up their game, but at this point, Microsoft is as proactive as Apple, and Soni is as far behind as Android.
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