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AntDX316
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December 14, 2023
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Read Out Loud (Text-to-Speech) for PDF needs to be better.

  • December 14, 2023
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Read Out Loud (Text-to-Speech) needs to be better. Sure, before AI exist, the old 1990 voice is alright but it has to sound better especially when people are paying a premium subscription per month. It should sound better and more natural.

The place where the voice is talking should at least highlight the word and there should be a button to know where it's at. The page should automatically scroll to where that is with a checkbox.

Some PDFs are super long as it's going to be hard to know where the location is.

Selecting different voices would be better.

There needs to be a way to set the page ranges like a printer so stuff is omitted when reading the whole thing such as the index and the end references.

There should be a way to read what is selected, not just the page or the paragraph only.

Correct answer Amal.

Hi @AntDX316 

 

Hope you are doing well and thanks for sharing your observation.

 

You may also share your feedback directly to our engineering team using the link https://www.adobe.com/products/wishform.html

 

Thanks

Amal

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Amal.
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Amal.Community ManagerCorrect answer
Community Manager
December 14, 2023

Hi @AntDX316 

 

Hope you are doing well and thanks for sharing your observation.

 

You may also share your feedback directly to our engineering team using the link https://www.adobe.com/products/wishform.html

 

Thanks

Amal

Niki@WSU
Known Participant
July 1, 2024

Dear Amal,

Has this request been sent to your engineering team? Acrobat (and Adobe in general) are WAY, WAY behind the times on this. The very robotic and non-human voice for the Read Out Loud feature is painful to listen to. It doesn't pause at the end of paragraphs and makes everything sound like a run-on sentence. I'm sure this was ground-breaking in 1980, but we are now in the year of our lord two thousand twenty-four!