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Windows Narrator is adding a speech viewer / log:
blogs.windows.com/windows-insi…

Do not treat it as a proxy for what is actually announced:
adrianroselli.com/2020/08/spee…

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Speech Viewer Logs of Lies

The headline is intentional hyperbole, chosen mostly for the sloppy alliteration. When sighted users test with a screen reader it is common to rely on the visual output — checking to see where focus goes, confirming that controls behave, watching the…
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Tamas G

if they can one-up other screen readers in actually dumping the output string of how the text-to-speech engine spoke the text, I'd be amazed. Still a huge point of confusion with VoiceOver's caption panel and other things, even at work, not to mention your article, yes. However, this could be a chance for them to do it right, especially if this is getting targeted at teachers and other professionals.
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James Scholes

That doesn't seem technically possible, let alone likely from Microsoft. Every synthesiser would need to report back what was actually said and how, which would also mean them agreeing on a format in which to deliver that information. At best, Microsoft could implement it for their own voices, and publish a spec for anyone else who wanted to bother. @aardrian
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Tamas G

@jscholes Yeah, when they had announced their "new natural voices", I was hopeful that maybe they'd add something exclusive to them with how it was (still is) so coupled to Narrator only, so this would be a good chance for it. Will probably wait for others to test it on the insider channel as I don't have any machines enrolled in it right now nor my past enthusiasm for trying them out. xD @aardrian
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