A narrator is performing art. Without true AI, you could program a given text to have dramatic pauses and inflection and tonal changes. You could probably do th

A narrator is performing art. Without true AI, you could program a given text to have dramatic pauses and inflection and tonal changes. You could probably do that with today's tech, though it would be very labor intensive to pull off. But for general narrate($book), I think it is as far off as real, general AI. This is something I don't expect in my lifetime.