Read Aloud in Reader Mode for iOS and Desktop

CrunchyFritos

In Reader Mode, FireFox has a built in text reader with variable speed adjustment accessible from the reader mode settings. Having a similar feature in Orion could be helpful especially on the iOS version for when I'm trying to read articles on the go.

For this to be useful, variable speed adjustment is critical, since auto-readers tend to read much too slowly to efficiently power through long text. VLC implementation of speed adjustments (no upper bound) is preferable to the FireFox implementation where there is an upper bound.

CrunchyFritos

Just realized that Safari for iOS supports this natively when both in reader mode and not in reader mode. My only suggestion beyond Safari’s implementation is to have no upper limit on reading speed.

avoraman

I created an account to specifically request this.

The read-aloud extension in Firefox is awkward because you can't use it with the reader view.

Safari uses Siri for read-aloud. I use so much that I've deleted news apps so I can listen in Safari instead of having to read the whole thing. I don't know about data collection that would come with the use of Siri.

I started trying Orion today, and am already going back to Safari.