How to access thousands of free audiobooks, thanks to Microsoft AI and Project Gutenberg
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Available through Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other platforms, the free audiobooks use neural text-to-speech technology to read to you in a human-sounding voice.
  • Isoprenoid@programming.devEnglish
    14·
    1 year ago

    The AI narrator sounds okay. The words are clearly pronounced. It mostly has a even tone and doesn’t seem to give a lot of emotion, this is fair though. When it reads a quote within the text it changes its tone, which I think is cool.

      • spauldo@lemmy.mlEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        Try listening to a book from the Library for the Blind. They read everything. Every written word in the book. Only the page number gets skipped (although they tell you what page you’re on when they change sides).

    • spauldo@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I once listened to a Harry Dresden book that was read by text-to-speech (back before they went back and had James Masters read all the books). It always said the word “wizard” (Harry’s a wizard) sarcastically. It made it seem like all the other characters were making fun of him all the time and really changed the feel of the book.