TTS Is Now a Core Workflow
This release makes text-to-speech a first-class reading mode across archived posts and regular Markdown documents.
Reader Mode TTS (Dual Engine)
- New Reader Mode TTS playback for archived posts
- Dual-engine support:
- Supertonic on-device TTS (desktop) needs additional download (~270mb)
- Azure cloud TTS as fallback when needed
- Better language-aware voice selection, including broader Latin-script detection plus Arabic, Hindi, and Thai coverage
- Improved autoplay, sentence prefetching, and skip reliability for smoother long-form reading
- Improved sentence highlighting and playback stability across mixed block layouts
Editor TTS (New)
- Added command palette actions:
- Read document aloud (TTS)
- Read selection aloud (TTS)
- Pause / Resume reading (TTS)
- Stop reading (TTS)
- Added a status bar mini player with progress, sentence navigation, and speed controls
- Added CodeMirror 6 synchronized highlighting during playback