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Text-to-speech
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2013–2026), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Text-to-speech, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 4 complaints
- Reads every button and symbol aloud, including decorative arrows, with no way to skip them2026-03-19
- Earlier text-to-speech voices were almost unusable to listen to2019-07-16
- Constantly checking recognized text for errors and re-entering it is frustrating2018-07-06
- Screen reader skips parentheses, so users miss manual page references2013-04-18