Read Aloud Feature

James Henderson
James Henderson Member Posts: 3 ✭✭
edited November 2024 in English Feedback
I use the Read Aloud feature often. I would like to recommend

1. Add a fast forward 30 sec. button on the interface.

2. Option to change the voice within the Logos UI.

3. When in Read Aloud Mode, be able to "one click" a spot on the page to begin voice reading from that starting point.

Those three features would be beneficial. Thank you.
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  • Bryan Garlock
    Bryan Garlock Member Posts: 9 ✭✭
    Yes! Please add this to the iPhone/iPad.
  • Chris Teien
    Chris Teien Member Posts: 3 ✭✭
    yes please allow Logos Read Aloud to use custom voices in windows. Even the Edge browser is using a higher quality reader than Logos
  • Peter Li
    Peter Li Member Posts: 24 ✭✭
    Yes, yes, please PLEASE improve the Read Aloud feature!! In addition to the above, please:
    4. Allow more speed options (e.g. speed slider)
    5. Make it more reliable, better tested (e.g. don't pause at awkward places, don't stop suddenly)
    6. Make "Show word by word indicator" (aka "Karaoke dancing dot") work for human narrator as well as system narrator, PLEASE!!
  • Peter Li
    Peter Li Member Posts: 24 ✭✭
    Yes, yes, please PLEASE improve the Read Aloud feature!! In addition to the above, please:
    4. Allow more speed options (e.g. speed slider)
    5. Make it more reliable, better tested (e.g. don't pause at awkward places, don't stop suddenly)
    6. Make "Show word by word indicator" (aka "Karaoke dancing dot") work for human narrator as well as system narrator, PLEASE!!
  • Noah77abc
    Noah77abc Member Posts: 17 ✭✭
    Yes same request to make Read Aloud more workable with Microsoft Narrator, such as being able to click anywhere in a text and it starts reading there.  As of now it starts reading at somewhat random places in books, not always at the start of a paragragh.
  • Jonathan Brown
    Jonathan Brown Member Posts: 30 ✭✭
    I’m seeing more things out there like Speechify, where you can get multiple “real” sounding voices to read. NLP has come a long way. This would be huge, and could also be a very important accessibility factor. I have friends that are visually impaired (totally blind in fact) that would have such a better UX if the read aloud feature was more robust and natural. 
  • Jeremy Lyerla
    Jeremy Lyerla Member Posts: 8 ✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1331479#Comment_1331479
    @Chris Teien  YES!  Agree.  Logos is way behind the curve
  • Rosie Perera
    Rosie Perera Member Posts: 26,194 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yes, all of the above. With regard to #3, I'd add a 3b: allow users to make a selection and have the voice begin reading at the beginning of that selection and stop automatically when you reach the end of the selection, so you can read aloud a certain passage of text and sit back and listen contemplatively, not have to be watching the text and be ready with the mouse to click and stop the reading.


    Also I would LOVE to see Logos incorporate the Max McLean audio NIV (https://www.biblegateway.com/resources/audio/?recording=niv-mclean). It's available *free* on BibleGateway. Having a real human voice reading Scripture to you (especially a trained voice like McLean's) is so much more wonderful a way to listen contemplatively to Scripture than even the best of voice-to-text software could approximate.
  • Genghis
    Genghis Member Posts: 58 ✭✭
    Currently Logos uses the old TTS technology from Control Panel.  Windows uses a different TTS technology now.  Please update Logos to use the latest Windows Narrator technology.
  • Unknown
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    Please update the read aloud feature with AI voices

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