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by fainpul 127 days ago
Is there something that will read books to me? I.e I have some books in epub format and want audiobook versions for them, with a nice voice.
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nerevarthelame 127 days ago
I use the standard iPhone TTS accessibility tool and an iOS ebook reader.

It has modern voices, but I prefer the robotic voice from 15 years ago because it's very patterned and predictable, which makes it easier to follow at super-fast speaking rates -- something closer to my visual reading rate.

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bilater 127 days ago
You can generate your own audiobook (single voice or multi) https://www.plainscribe.com
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yismail 127 days ago
ElevenReader works well and has a pretty good free plan
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joshmlewis 127 days ago
Speechify has been good for me although there might be better / cheaper alternatives I'm not aware of.
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