[causi]

Microsoft's Text-To-Speech APIs are the best on the market.

Wow, I had no idea they were that good. Is there a way to get at them from a consumer level? For example, there are plenty of e-reader apps that use Google's TTS to read epub books as audiobooks. Anything similar for Microsoft or is it all on the developer side?

[zidad]

You can just try it out here from the browser if you like:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-service...

[causi]

That's a good demo, but it isn't much use for making audio content from ebooks.

[hobo_mark]

Transcribing an entire ebook this way is going to be _expensive_.

[AshamedCaptain]

They have basically been licensing L&H then Nuance until they bought it outright.