[The_suffocated]

Great news. It seems there is still much room for improvement, though. E.g. in “A Short History of the World” by H. G. Wells, the AI reads Darius I and Charles V as “Darius Eye” and “Charles Vee”. Open and closed brackets in sentences are not read out. The intonation is also a bit unnatural. But it is intelligent enough to parse 1,782 as 1782 rather than two numbers.

Another problem is that the audio clips are not broken into sessions. There is no way to locate the beginning of a chapter, for instance.

[low_tech_love]

I noticed the same, especially when some kind of structure text (like a bullet point or numbered list) comes in.

[hedora]

Some podcasts embed chapter start timestamps into the rss (atom? m3u?) metadata.

That way, you get one file (and gapless playback), but most players have a chapter skip button that will do what you are asking for.