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I like to use Edge on occasion when I need to read something dry but necessary because I find following along with the TTS it’s auto-highlight of text helps me
by slyn 2y ago
I like to use Edge on occasion when I need to read something dry but necessary because I find following along with the TTS it’s auto-highlight of text helps me stay focused and retain better as well.
Is there any equivalent program for ebooks? If not can someone build one? The dream would be to plop in an arbitrary document (pdf, docs, tex, epub, and so on) and have it read to me by a reasonable TTS at a speed of my choosing and have words / lines highlighted as the TTS goes along. Bonus points if you can regularly identify and skip things that are not necessarily relevant like page numbers, headers, footnote markers, and so on, which is something that Edge TTS within Edge struggles with when reading PDFs.
- lf-non 2y agoThe ReadEra app for android supports this, and I use it for reading/listening to ebooks during commute. It works well.
- gostsamo 2y agoYou can use a screen reader. Most of them have a focus highlight feature and use local tts.
- FireInsight 2y agoI've been using https://readest.com/ https://readest.com/ lately. It's FOSS and just recently got this feature. The TTS voices are pretty natural and text is highlighted one sentence at a time. Plus the design of the product is great.
- jahsome 2y agoCalibre does this.
- tomr75 2y agocan you use TTS models?
- visarga 2y agohttps://www.naturalreaders.com/ https://www.naturalreaders.com/, is has a free tier I think
- laurentlb 2y agoIf anyone else wonders, naturalreaders provides no API.