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Doesn't it need to be "fixed" - i.e. in this case recorded - to fall into this category? I doubt reading out loud would qualify as fixed. This probably falls a
by jwilliams 18y ago
Doesn't it need to be "fixed" - i.e. in this case recorded - to fall into this category? I doubt reading out loud would qualify as fixed.
This probably falls afoul of anti-discrimination laws - i.e. speech readers for the blind.
- Tichy 18y agoInstead of synthesizing speech, Amazon will have to employ it's mechanical turk to have actual humans read the text ;-) Now everything falls into place - brilliant strategy...
- jodrellblank 18y agoNot really hacker news, but if you're interested in mass-amateur-read audio-books, http://www.librivox.org http://www.librivox.org is a collaborative effort to read books outloud (as long as their copyright has expired) where there can be several contributors per book.
- gojomo 18y agoLibrivox -- a distributed collaboration possible via the net, digitization, and open licensing -- is absolutely Hacker News!
- boredguy8 18y ago"Diamond Age" by Neal Stephenson