Am I missing the point?
slightly, the advent of speach-interactive hardware is obliging
some of us to deal with the concept of new ways to "read"
text.
The blind are a significant population, many more of them
would be enabled to use computers given suitable "readers",
and vocal rendition of arbitrary text is beginning to rear
its ugly head in the real world.
An Australian blind want to hear Australian English, even if
the letter is from US.
Masataka Ohta