Maniphest T126179

Add Text-to-Speech to iOS App
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	Feb 8 2016, 12:39 AM

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Apple's iOS 9 includes some state of the art Text to Speech voices. Some of the voice packs border on human realism at times.

Our iOS app should make the most of this built in feature by:

Provide instruction to how to activate "Speak Screen" (two finger swipe from the screen top) from Settings > Accessibility > Speech
Provide built-in controls for reading articles and "playlists", perhaps "Wikipedia Radio" functionality

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		Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
		Open		None	T126179 Add Text-to-Speech to iOS App
		Open	BUG REPORT	None	T126922 Links interrupt text for VoiceOver users, text is therefore hard to understand in the iOS app
		Resolved		None	T138048 [SPIKE] Audit use case for a reader mode to improve voice over readability of articles
		Open		None	T347275 Feature suggestion: VoiceOver button

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Dispenser created this task.Feb 8 2016, 12:39 AM

Dispenser raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.

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Dispenser added projects: Wikipedia-iOS-App-Development, Accessibility.

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HakanIST subscribed.Feb 8 2016, 9:39 AM

• Johsthao closed this task as a duplicate of T126250: <spam>.Feb 8 2016, 6:24 PM

• JMinor triaged this task as Medium priority.Feb 8 2016, 6:25 PM

• JMinor edited projects, added Wikipedia-iOS-App-Backlog, iOS-app-v5.1.0-Saturn; removed Wikipedia-iOS-App-Development.

• JMinor set Security to None.

matmarex reopened this task as Open.Feb 8 2016, 6:32 PM

• JMinor moved this task from Needs Triage to Product Backlog on the Wikipedia-iOS-App-Backlog board.Feb 8 2016, 6:49 PM

Volker_E moved this task from Unsorted to iOS on the Accessibility board.Feb 11 2016, 10:51 PM

Danny_B unsubscribed.Feb 11 2016, 10:52 PM

• JMinor added a subtask: T126922: Links interrupt text for VoiceOver users, text is therefore hard to understand in the iOS app.May 9 2016, 10:19 PM

• JMinor edited projects, added iOS-app-feature-Accessibility; removed iOS-app-v5.1.0-Saturn.

(Just want to do a shoutout to Wikispeech, since it is will be a freely licensed part of MediaWiki.)

Sebastian_Berlin-WMSE subscribed.Jul 20 2016, 9:20 AM

• JMinor moved this task from Product Backlog to Garage on the Wikipedia-iOS-App-Backlog board.Sep 2 2016, 12:43 AM

Is this a workaround for VoiceOver bugs? I'm curious why we would reimplement text-to-speech.

• Ssggg201 closed this task as Declined.Dec 2 2020, 6:08 AM

• Ssggg201 raised the priority of this task from Medium to Unbreak Now!.

• Ssggg201 removed projects: iOS-app-feature-Accessibility, Wikipedia-iOS-App-Backlog, Accessibility.

• Ssggg201 updated the task description. (Show Details)

• Ssggg201 removed subscribers: awight, Sebastian_Berlin-WMSE, Josve05a and 4 others.

JJMC89 reopened this task as Open.Dec 2 2020, 7:03 AM

JJMC89 lowered the priority of this task from Unbreak Now! to Medium.

JJMC89 added projects: iOS-app-feature-Accessibility, Wikipedia-iOS-App-Backlog, Accessibility.

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JJMC89 added subscribers: awight, Sebastian_Berlin-WMSE, Josve05a and 4 others.

ARamadan-WMF added a subtask: T347275: Feature suggestion: VoiceOver button.Sep 27 2023, 1:54 PM