Steven W, 2019-12-02 23:07 »
Oh, fuck it! I'll put it out here. Not using the damned MS Feedback hub. The one saving grace of that tablet ended up being Amazon's Kindle software. I installed the full 'PC' version. She likes it because it can read out loud to her and unlike the Android version, she doesn't have to pay to an extra audio file for it to do it.
The Amazon reader relies heavily on Microsoft text-to-speech api (accessibility tech). That said, it has some annoyances for her (they would be for me too), such as reading out the letters M, R, S when it sees 'Mrs.', reading out the Letters S and T when it sees ST Louis. Microsoft could take a big chunk of Amazon's book market by simple providing a reader mode for that stuff and putting out their own product. I hate to say it, but simply embedding info in the downloadable book, stuff where the speech API would fuck up would be a good start.
Much of that could be somewhat automated too (at least the searching for it):
Here's ST or ST. or St. - Does this mean Saint, Street....
Here's MRS or MRS. or Mrs. - let's just say Missus.
Same thing for MR. MR Mr., MS MS. ms.
State abbreviations, BLVD, AVE,
You get the idea. - Allowing customers to submit correction and updating...informing customers of updates to book... Having the reader check for revision the next time the book is opened... Again, you get the idea.
Oh, fuck it! I'll put it out here. Not using the damned MS Feedback hub. The one saving grace of that tablet ended up being Amazon's Kindle software. I installed the full 'PC' version. She likes it because it can read out loud to her and unlike the Android version, she doesn't have to pay to an extra audio file for it to do it.
The Amazon reader relies heavily on Microsoft text-to-speech api (accessibility tech). That said, it has some annoyances for her (they would be for me too), such as reading out the letters M, R, S when it sees 'Mrs.', reading out the Letters S and T when it sees ST Louis. Microsoft could take a big chunk of Amazon's book market by simple providing a reader mode for that stuff and putting out their own product. I hate to say it, but simply embedding info in the downloadable book, stuff where the speech API would fuck up would be a good start.
Much of that could be somewhat automated too (at least the searching for it):
Here's ST or ST. or St. - Does this mean Saint, Street....
Here's MRS or MRS. or Mrs. - let's just say Missus.
Same thing for MR. MR Mr., MS MS. ms.
State abbreviations, BLVD, AVE,
You get the idea. - Allowing customers to submit correction and updating...informing customers of updates to book... Having the reader check for revision the next time the book is opened... Again, you get the idea.