I used to have papers read to me via TTS when I had a long commute. This was before the current crop of neural TTS, mind you, so the quality and naturalness was

I used to have papers read to me via TTS when I had a long commute. This was before the current crop of neural TTS, mind you, so the quality and naturalness wasn’t as good, but it was good enough to tolerate and to get the gist of a paper. It failed terribly on equations, of course, but that’s often not too important on the first reading.