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by wombatpm 497 days ago
You start doing that for text from ebooks and Audible is going to want to have words with you.
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I do it only for long articles. Not interested in converting fiction into audio books unless the quality rivals that of real storytellers.

And, you know, this is not a service I'd provide others. Just for my own use running from my PC. Audible won't know or care, just as no one cares if you borrow a book from the library and photocopy it for your own use.

Kindle originally had text to speech functionality. The Audibook people sued and Amazon went in to buy Audible