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That would be good for books too esoteric to justify a professional recording, but machine learning will never get as good as a professionally narrated audioboo
by anbop 7y ago
That would be good for books too esoteric to justify a professional recording, but machine learning will never get as good as a professionally narrated audiobook. The form is so distinctive that the training data would need to be the very best audiobooks.
- visarga 7y agoI use TTS on almost all the text I read online. I'm using it even now. I find it helps me be more engaged and follow the text at a deeper level. It's not a perfect voice, but I have adapted to it and enjoyed it for more than 10 years (Alex from MacOS). Now I find reading with just my eyes a shallower experience. The great advantage is that I can use it anywhere - on forums, articles, books and even scientific papers. Places where speech was not a choice before.