diff --git a/apps/readest-app/src/services/tts/TTSController.ts b/apps/readest-app/src/services/tts/TTSController.ts
index 854fb1a3..4a9d876b 100644
--- a/apps/readest-app/src/services/tts/TTSController.ts
+++ b/apps/readest-app/src/services/tts/TTSController.ts
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ export class TTSController extends EventTarget {
     if (!ssml) {
       this.#nossmlCnt++;
       // FIXME: in case we are at the end of the book, need a better way to handle this
-      if (this.#nossmlCnt < 100) {
+      if (this.#nossmlCnt < 10) {
         await this.view.next(1);
         this.forward();
       }
@@ -47,8 +47,6 @@ export class TTSController extends EventTarget {
 
     if (lastCode === 'end') {
       this.forward();
-    } else {
-      this.state = 'paused';
     }
   }
 
diff --git a/apps/readest-app/src/services/tts/WebSpeechClient.ts b/apps/readest-app/src/services/tts/WebSpeechClient.ts
index 21e06cab..6c47dc2d 100644
--- a/apps/readest-app/src/services/tts/WebSpeechClient.ts
+++ b/apps/readest-app/src/services/tts/WebSpeechClient.ts
@@ -72,7 +72,8 @@ function findMark(charIndex: number, marks: TTSMark[]) {
 async function* speakWithBoundary(ssml: string) {
   const lang = getXmlLang(ssml);
   const { plainText, marks } = parseSSMLMarks(ssml);
-  // console.log('text', ssml, plainText, marks);
+  // console.log('ssml', ssml, marks);
+  // console.log('text', plainText);
 
   const synth = window.speechSynthesis;
   const utterance = new SpeechSynthesisUtterance(plainText);