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This seems like it could be great for automatically generating audio books. Personally I would one day like to have a program that can read arbitrary text to me

This seems like it could be great for automatically generating audio books. Personally I would one day like to have a program that can read arbitrary text to me in a more or less human way, that would allow me to read papers for work while driving.

Someguywhatever 8y ago
I thought the exact same thing. Except that I know if it pronounces certain names or words wrong over and over it would make me crazy and I would have to stop.
- jscholes 8y ago
  > Except that I know if it pronounces certain names or words wrong over and over it would make me crazy and I would have to stop. Most decent TTS or assistive technology systems have a pronunciation dictionary. This is a very real problem for people who use screen readers on a daily basis but luckily it's a (mostly) solved one.
amrrs 8y ago
Isn't it something Amazon Polly does a good job ?
ChuckMcM 8y ago
You could except you would get sued. The Kindle 2 was announced with a feature that would read the book to you and Amazon landed in court. https://sunsteinlaw.com/read-it-aloud-and-weep-controversy-surrounds-text-to-speech-feature-of-amazons-kindle-reader/ https://sunsteinlaw.com/read-it-aloud-and-weep-controversy-s...
- jscholes 8y ago
  > You could except you would get sued. The Kindle 2 was announced with a feature that would read the book to you and Amazon landed in court. But yet here we are, 9 years later, and the Kindle apps on Android, Windows and iOS support screen reader access to books. Those screen readers can use an array of voices, undoubtedly including the speech engines used in the original TTS feature written about here.