I think if you are needing to have personal coaching on how to use a website interface, it may be time to step back and reevaluate the design.
One thing that confused me is that you are mixing three UX paradigms: tabs, cards, and playlist. Moreover, you have stepped away from the core behaviour of links opening pages.
I know you have reasons for your decisions, but I think the particular place you have ended up is inherently confusing.
I’d start by either going all in on a real tab interface (where each tab only ever displayed a single sutta, as a tab in a web browser only ever displays one web page) or abandon that and instead have a playlist view that let you navigate to places on the page.
Personally I like the idea of not duplicating browser functions. Having multiple tabs (or multiple windows) is what browsers do well. You could easily have a playlist that was the same entity across different tabs (meaning changing it in one tab changed it in the others).
I managed to get it working just fine by following the instructions to click on the “sound” icon. After that it seemed fairly intuitive to use… at first I thought it was @Gillian reading out the English tranlsation.
I’m a fairly low tech person, but I seem to be able to get it to work without necessarily understanding about cards and GUI etc.
Would be cool if there was voice for the Pātimokkhas! Just a thought.
When I was learning the Pātimokkha I had a recording of Bhante Sujato and Ayya Suddinna and would re-play bits over and over again to try and learn how to pronounce things.
Thank you everybody for your feedback! Much to discuss and think about with @karl_lew . I am relieved that some of you seem even to get it to work and be happy …
Just one word for now:
Yes, that would be! The technical hurdles for including vinaya texts are high, our to-do list is long, the available capacity is very limited, so we decided to put the vinaya further down for the time being. But we may re-evaluate if there is real need by real people.
On a cautionary note, my own time for spending on Voice is fading away with my eyesight. Voice exists so that I can hear the Dhamma when I can no longer read. Ayya @Sabbamitta and I have been prioritizing the feature list with that in mind.
The reality is that at this point we really do need others to help implement many of these wonderful suggestions. For example, Ayya @Vimala kindly helped us with the Light theme on sc-voice. I couldn’t do that since the Light theme hurts my eyes. Thank you, Ayya @Vimala!
Indeed it’s even possible to recreate the entire front-end of SC-Voice. SC-Voice has a back-end which does all the narration segment by segment, language by language, voice by voice. So it should be easy to create new front-ends fit to purpose. We will support those efforts and cheer you on.
Keep the great suggestions coming. They really are marvelously helpful.
As Ayya @Sabbamitta mentioned above, the Pali narrator for SC-Voice is a custom AWS Polly narrator named Aditi. Aditi is actually a Hindi voice and we customized Aditi with IPA to get an “intelligible” Pali. The AWS is not perfect, but it is serviceable.
There is a certain raw sharpness to vigilance, an “ignore this and die” sense of urgency that is heightened by its use as a verb in ES/PT. I’m a rock climber, where vigilance is required when a slip of the foot can kill, main or injure. And that sense of sharp awareness is what flows through in ES/PT, while it is muted in EN.
It’s common in app development to have a group of testers involved throughout who are end users, not developers. Typically they work with the product owner (in this case, Ven. Sabbamitta) who works directly with the developer(s). I.e., many hands indeed are required!
Effectively that’s happening now in this thread; however, a small group that meets real-time would make this much more rewarding That’s always been my experience in IT-land with customers.
Ven. @Snowbird makes a good point here, especially regarding the three UX (user experience) paradigms. Nothing wrong with continuing to play around with UX and GUI stuff! We can do this without interrupting its availability.
Perhaps down the road there can be volunteers to read and record various Pali texts.
A good place to start could be the students now working through G&K- could be good practice for them!
Thanks to @MichaelH, Voice also has Bhante Sujato’s own audio recordings. For example, we can hear Bhante on SN1.1. You’ll need to choose him as the Narrator for EN/PLI
One problem we encountered with human audio recordings is that audio/text alignment is challenging. In addition, Bhante has been revising his texts, so the audio is currently out of date. In contrast, the robot voices are perfectly aligned and always current.
In other words, next to someone who does the recording, then we need someone who does the audio editing, segments the recording according to the SC segments, etc.
This way we have by now human voice recordings for SN1.1 up to SN2.20, both Pali and English.
that it’s there. 
That’s always been my experience in IT-land with customers.