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I have been using webnovel app on android since it came out and I was very excited when audio chapter playback (text to speech) came out because I thought it would allow me to "read" much more than I would have had free time to read. Instead of just reading an hour before sleep, I would be able to listen to the novel while I do chores, commute, shower, cook, etc.

Unfortunately, ever since audio playback came out, it had a serious issue that to this very day has not been resolved.

Every couple of words, the audio playback pauses as if it ran into a period. It constantly reads, every single line as if there was a line break in the middle of the sentence. I assume this is because there IS a line break every couple of words when you view the text in the app, since it is formatted to fit portrait oriented phones. Anyway, your code inserts non existant breaks into the text passed to android's text to speech that ruin the flow of the story and make it unbearable to listen to the chapter audio playback.

Please, please fix this! If it isn't a quick fix, could you at least give us a temporary solution such as removing line breaks from audio playback altogether?

Yes please fix this. The feature is completely unusable.

It's using Google's service, so it's likely a Google problem.

CKtalon doesn't seem to be the case, as Google Text-to-Speech works completely fine on every other form of reading. Tested this across multiple different web novel sites, and also a few news sites as well all using the Google Text-to-Speech to read. Note that this is including sites that do use similar line-breaks styles to format the text. This should specifically be an issue with how web novel is inserting line breaks whenever it is formatting chapters for the app. Google Text-to-Speech just converts from whatever it's receiving from the raw format into speech. You can achieve a very similar effects to what you currently experience in this app, if you give it text to read that has a lot of manual line breaks in it.

So, is anyone going to fix this? It's been so long and it still hasn't been fixed. :(
I'm forced to open webnovel in browser and then use text to speech apps that can read websites. None of them have any issues reading it properly. Ofc, there are other issues with using text to speech apps with websites so don't use that as an excuse for your lack of response regarding this issue!

What are you guys doing?? This is such a simple thing to fix. Just preprocess the text before sending it to text-to-speech generator. It's literally a single string replace command! A five minute fix! With the 4 minutes and 30 seconds consisting of finding the right place to insert this single line of code!

I'm going to bump this discussion until I get a response.

RemielDucrot Instead of bumping this thread, create a new thread and tag it with Suggestions instead of report bugs.

@yaoyueyi Necro'ed Thread.