Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange ("The Nexus of Privacy") wrote:
Here's a very interesting article on AI text-to-speech and screenreaders. Screnreaders use good old-fashioned text-to-speech technology, and it turns out that all this fancy new AI technology isn't helpful at all.
"So what's the way forward for blind screen reader users? Sadly, I don't know. Modern text to speech research has little to no overlap with our requirements. Using Eloquence, the system that many blind people find best, is becoming increasingly untenable."
https://stuff.interfree.ca/2026/01/05/ai-tts-for-screenreaders.html