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From: Larry Wolff <larrywolff@larrywolff.net>
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Subject: Re: What is an easy way to get Android to speak the text of this web page?
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2025 10:37:47 -0500
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On 2/17/2025 3:30 AM, Andy Burns wrote:

>> What is an easy way to get Android to speak the text of this web page?
>> 
>> https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1956/july/japans-losing-struggle-guadalcanal
> 
> Settings / Accessibility / Talkback

I had already tried the Android accessibility talkback before asking. 
Once set, you hold the two volume buttons down to turn it on.
But after that, it is so obnoxious to use, you'll turn it back off.
You'd have to be on the verge of desperate to use it for this purpose.

Compare that to how beautifully custom-designed programs do it.

At first I tried a very nice AI program that spoke the text wonderfully.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.codespaceapps.listeningapp
The description said nothing about only working for the first 30 minutes.

It took about 20 minutes to convert the web page to an on-device AAC file.
I couldn't believe how human sounding that AAC audio file turned out to be.
But it only gave you 30 minutes of free web page text to speech AAC.

I'm looking for an app like that one, but without the 30-minute limitation.