Text to speech ignores periods since 2018
I've been an avid user of text-to-speech for decades. We're in a pleasing era at the moment in that Apple has embraced and provides some excellent reading voices, in particular the 'premium' voices.
However, old and persistent bugs in Apple's text-to-speech remain. I'm happy that the latest version of macOS Sonoma, 14.4.1 corrects the TTS crashing bug that stopped it from finishing the reading of selected text. And yet there's a bug as old as at least 2018, when this question was first asked here, that somehow prevents voices from recognizing periods at the end of paragraphs. This is an obvious problem when TTS is reading web pages and can ruin the listener's understanding of what's read.
Back in the renaissance of TTS, circa the 1990s, there were wonderful applications that allowed remarkably good editing of the reading output of TTS voices. The ignoring of periods could be overcome by way of an added script. But I know of no such tools today. Therefore, the fault falls directly into Apple's lap and remains there.
I'll be forwarding all this over to Feedback, for whatever good that will do. But I'd like to know if anyone knows of workarounds in the current day and age for such bug errors in TTS. I'd be willing to dig down into the CLI to overcome this and other TTS problems.
Thank you.
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 14.4
