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RoyalRoad - clean up text for Text to Speach (TTS)

Improve use of TTS (Text to Speach) app, like ReadAloud, on RR. This script removes artfacts and stops the TTS app to ommit some words. The app also removes the footer on chapter pages because it is annoying to hear in the TTS app.

Version vom 16.12.2024. Aktuellste Version

// ==UserScript==
// @name         RoyalRoad - clean up text for Text to Speach (TTS)
// @namespace    http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version      1
// @description  Improve use of TTS (Text to Speach) app, like ReadAloud, on RR. This script removes artfacts and stops the TTS app to ommit some words. The app also removes the footer on chapter pages because it is annoying to hear in the TTS app. 
// @author       djjudjju25
// @match        https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/*/*/chapter/*/*
// @license MIT
// @grant        none
// ==/UserScript==

function clean() {
    'use strict';

    removeLessGreaterThan(document.getElementsByClassName('chapter-content')[0]);

    function removeLessGreaterThan(chapter) {
        if (chapter) {
            for (let x of chapter.children) {
                x.innerHTML = x.getInnerHTML()
                    .replace(/</g, '[')
                    .replace(/>/g, ']')
                    .replace(/(\b)(Iv)(\b)/g, '$1Yve$3')
                    .replace(/(\b)(Sch)/g, '$1Sh')
                    .replace(/--+/g, "‒‒")
                    .replace(/==+/g, '==')
                    .replace(/\/\/+/g, '/')
                  ;
            }
        }
    }
}

function removeFooter() {
    document.getElementsByClassName('page-prefooter')[0]?.remove();
    document.getElementsByClassName('footer')[0]?.remove();
}

removeFooter();
clean();