[lifeisstillgood]

I assume there are a number of Youtube channels doing something like this already - I occasionally notice that an otherwise well-researched and presented item has a non-English idiom - such that even a fluent speaker would self-correct.

I guess the idea is to write one and just "release" it in many languages.

The point of all that is, yeah, computer generated voice has gotten to the point I need dumb mistakes to realise ... one of those "the tech has passed an inflection point" moments

[AYBABTME]

And yet apps that leverage this are quasi absent. The Firefox screen reader widget is good but the voices are limited and the functionality limited to well formatted pages. E-book software seems to not integrate this tech either.

[hopesthoughts]

I wouldn't use something like that myself. I use NVDA full time. If you actually need a screen reader, you probably want something more advance than a browser widget. https://www.nvaccess.org/

[AYBABTME]

I don't _need_ screen readers in so far as I can still read with my eyes, but I can read content quite a lot faster with it, and finish reading stuff I otherwise wouldn't, using spoken text instead.

[busymom0]

My hacker news client HACK has both reader mode for articles as well as read text to speech for articles and comments. It's brand new so feedback is welcome:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pranapps.h...

[phreeza]

I think I know the type of video you mean, I always assumed they were not TTS but professional speakers hired on Fiver and obliged to speak the text verbatim even though there are weird phrases.