Each state has its own set of guidelines (in the United Kingdom, for instance, they were established with the Equality Act of 2010, and Web Accessibility standards were defined through BS 8878:2010, the Web Accessibility Code of Practice), but for online content next to no state has worked out the details.

AccessibilityĪccessibility guidelines are here to stay, to create websites and apps that are better for everyone. The two female voices sound very similar, so that users can have a consistent experience on platforms that are officially supported, but also on those that are not. On OSX Safari, the fallback voice can be male or female. The fallback voice is also female, and is used in the Android default browser, Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Opera. The main voice we provide (“Australian Female”) is supported in Chrome for desktop, OSX Safari, and iOS Chrome and Safari. The Australian Female voice is also used in browsers that do not natively support both versions, such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Opera.

ResponsiveVoice Australian text to speech is supported natively in Chrome desktop, Safari, and iOS. Chrome on Android does supports our technology in the operating system, but it is not accessible to the browser, so ResponsiveVoice falls back to Australian Female as the best case available. ResponsiveVoice gets you an all-in-one, affordable and pain-free solution to integrate text to speech with an Australian accent, one that only weighs 14kB and solves the myriad problems speech synthesis entails, which include (but unfortunately are not limited to) per-character costs, having to initialise the speech engine after page load, timing delays between API calls, speech rate problems, it’s a mess we chose to tidy up so you don’t have to! Australian text to speech with ResponsiveVoice Compatibility Australian text to speech needs good technology to work well, but that technology is difficult to come by, and it’s always a pain to implement.

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