[smeej]

Are you doing that with "old-fashioned" TTS, or have you found a good resource for uploading your own docs/epubs and having them read back by one of these higher quality synthesized voices? (I've been looking for the latter, but not having much luck.)

[staticman2]

Elevenlabs reader does AI voices for free, not sure if they'll start charging at any point since I don't know how this fits into their business model.

[freefaler]

It'll be great when the AI generation gets on device and you won't need to pay per minute of text generated. Elevenlabs would burn through the investors' money someday and they'd stop subsidizing the reader voice generation.

[smeej]

It won't run on GrapheneOS, and I don't have any other Android phones. They hide behind "security," but I don't buy it. What risk is there?

[freefaler]

Just old-school TTS from Acapella, a paid one Heather. I got used to it before there was a wide selection on Audible and it's ok.

You can't use audio for serious books or articles but History, Biographies, Fiction, random tech articles bookmarked in Pocket and it's locally generated, so no latency is great.

Additionally, when you use a TTS engine, you can see the text and easily copy the things you want to make a note on later. With Audiobooks it's not possible.