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Which platform are you on? I use a droplet on the Macintosh built with Automator.

On the Mac there's already a service that will read texts and PDF's etc. You may have to install similar things on your UX or Windoze computer.

Do you not read faster than regular human speaking voice speed? (No shame if you do, just curious)

Not at all; the opposite, I think. As a new Silicon Valley resident, I spent 2 hours a day in a car and have really been enjoying Audible. A few years ago I found myself using Instapaper-to-Kindle. Now I need something-to-Audible. :/

Some people like to listen to things while driving.

You could save articles to Pocket, and then have it read it to you.

Azure's cognitive services, particularly because you can spend the free development dollars for a start:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/sp...

I have been very pleased with customer reviews when we used the service to custom voicemail greetings per caller for a call center app, where the client was losing too many tickets to SPAM filters, before we could move them to a new SMTP server. And afterwards, too.