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I'd like to see text-to-speech applicable to iBooks so you can have whole chapters read to you. Not as good as an audio book, but better than nothing.
by classified 3y ago
I'd like to see text-to-speech applicable to iBooks so you can have whole chapters read to you. Not as good as an audio book, but better than nothing.
- robin_reala 3y agoSo I agree that easily available speech controls would be a nice benefit, but Books is fully compatible with VoiceOver already (and has been since VoiceOver’s launch).
- layer8 3y agoThis is problematic because it competes with audiobooks. Presumably Apple wants to sell audiobooks and also doesn’t want to piss off publishers. Kindle provides a (mediocre) text-to-speech feature, but only for books where publisher have consented to it. Apple’s strategy seems to be to have publishers (rather than readers) use their AI-powered digital narration service: https://authors.apple.com/support/4519-digital-narration-audiobooks https://authors.apple.com/support/4519-digital-narration-aud...