Problem with certain webpages (Reposted)

[dvansoye]

Hi Travis!
Love your extension. I use it every day. I love having the same voice options across Obsidian and my browser.

I do have one small problem that I thought I would mention. While, I'm able to use edge-tts-client on most pages, I've noticed that I can't consistently do so on pages generates by perplexity.ai. I'm often need it to have long responses back to me. But, I have to use another tts extention (Wavenet for Chrome) when needed text read from a Perplexity page. Perhaps there is something in the webpage that is keeping it from working. I select the text, right click and select the Edge Text to Speech Voice Reader and then select Read aloud with Edge TTS. Nothing happens. I do the same with Wavenet for Chrome and it works. I have also selected text for Google Gemini. Edge TTS works perfectly. So, there's something specific to Perplexity.

Oh, I just tried to use Edge TTS to read this issue I'm writing to you here and the same thing happens. I select the text and invoke Edge TTS but nothing happened. If you don't have Perplexity, this might be a better test case.

Here's an example:

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[travisvn]

Hey @dvansoye — just going to repost my edits from the comments on the issue on the other repo here for posterity

My first glance thoughts on this (assuming you're referring to the Edge TTS browser extension) is that I'm a bit surprised, particularly that selecting the text doesn't allow you to read it aloud.

However, some websites have tricky (and currently unknown-to-myself) mechanisms that mess up the normally straight forward text retrieval. GitHub is actually one of these sites.

So would you mind trying the extension at something like https://basics.guide/post/how-to-tell-the-difference-between-ai-generated-and-human-written-content and just confirm that the functionality works there? That'll help me begin to diagnose

EDIT2: Oh and I do not have Perplexity, to answer one of your questions.

Action items are for you to test the extension on basics.guide and report back if it works and we can go from there

[dvansoye]

Yes. Works perfectly at https://basics.guide/post/how-to-tell-the-difference-between-ai-generated-and-human-written-content.

Let me know what else I can provide. 😄