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Andrew Conner
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What's the best (quality) consumer-friendly text to speech product for reading long documents? Ideally with mp3 out, so I can put on my phone. My favorite voice is Wondercraft, but their product is geared towards podcast authors (so, expensive + poor workflow). But, great quality: https://overcast.fm/+BCcr-d1f3s
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Speechify!!!
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@acon
Oh interesting. I had looked at them previously, but found their voices lacking ("John" is... eh). Looked through the voices and think I could listen to "Cliff Weitzman". Will give this a go.
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I think it's 90% of the way there, but has enough issues to be distracting. I'm hopeful the tech will improve over the next year. For example, pronounced Gödel very wrong, and cliché as "clish". Gets stuck on punctuation causing unnatural pauses. Wrong intonation for context when ! or ? is used.
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