TTS voices sound robotic and hard to follow
Text-to-speech output sounds robotic, unnatural and hard to understand compared with Edge's natural voices.
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
8 public reports · first reported 23 April 2017 · last reported 11 June 2025
What's going wrong
Many users of this Firefox text-to-speech add-on say the built-in voices sound like old computer speech, flat, mechanical and tiring to listen to over long pages.
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