Screen Readers Don’t Convey the Semantics of STRONG and EM - Matthias Ott: https://matthiasott.com/notes/screen-readers-semantics-strong-em
Rhapsode on the other hand...
Tends to sound especially robotic on italicized text, so definitely keen to hear advances in voice synthesis I can use! Funny that the AI more human-sounding voices don't give me these knobs...