[Houshalter]

And who says it can't understand the material? There have been recurrent networks trained that can translate between languages, or predict the next word in a sentence, at remarkable accuracy. Combined with wavenet this could be quite effective.

[thomasahle]

There could be cases where the intonation is dependent on things entirely outside of the book. If say a politician does something in the writing that is far from what we would expect them to do in today's world.

[visarga]

How about we allow annotation of text with prosody cues? Mark the words you want stressed. We already use question and exclamation marks.

[atty79]

I'd love that. Writing is a poor representation of language. It'd be nice to bring it up a notch. Here's a suggestion in a paper I wrote on better second language acquisition. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261022308_BETTER_SE...

[spiritus_]

Like traditional audio books can capture perfectly what you're referring to...

[ycombinatorMan]

They can, though?