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   gnutelephony (gnutelephony@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 19:05:44 JST gnutelephony

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   • Amir

   @amir Indeed, I cannot even see what's on my phone anymore. #google #accessibility #fail. I wish people there actually would care about fixing things like that, rather than how to integrate advertiser tracking and deceive the general public doing so like assholes.

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     Amir (amir@tweesecake.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 19:05:45 JST Amir

     With Android accessibility, one can never understand what Google is up to. Take Google TTS for Android as an example. Google doesn't allow TalkBack to use high-quality Google voices despite playing high-quality samples via the Test voice button. And the low-quality ones sound pathetic - like low-quality Vocalizer voices - even worse. However, if you install an app like Auto TTS, a paid product, you can force TalkBack, or other screen readers, to use high-quality Google voices. And Google keeps tweeking TTS-related options in strange ways. Yesterday's update, for instance, made voices a bit more expressive by raising the pitch of the first syllable of each utterence.