Platform-dispatched TTS (spd-say + espeak-ng fallback on Linux, say on
macOS, PowerShell System.Speech on Windows) with a shared SpeakerButton
component. Tap to speak, tap again to stop; only one button speaks at
a time so two surfaces don't talk over each other. Text always travels
via argv (or a PowerShell here-string delivered through -EncodedCommand
on Windows) so user content never enters a shell string.
Mount points: DictationPage transcript footer, transcript viewer header,
per-step in MicroSteps. Settings gains a "Read aloud" accordion with
voice picker (lazy-loaded from the OS synth), rate slider 0.5-2.0x,
and a British-English test utterance.
Rust tests cover rate mapping, NaN handling, and Windows here-string
terminator safety. No pause/resume, no SSML, no cloud voices — that
stays out of scope per the Layer-1 roadmap.
Jake
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