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I'm glad I've trained my brain to acclimatize to TTS, trivially easy to compile epubs into audiobooks now. Think we're a few years away from neural TTS solutions making passable audiobooks. Tons of services for articles sound OK now. Even youtube wiki TTS spam are becoming not bad.

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I've been using TTS for years by now, and IMO it's really good by now for original digital epub editions. The biggest remaining issue is some words can be mispronounced (wrong part of speech, foreign or rare words). Even "text in quotes" is accentuated now in Google TTS, although it'd be nice to also highlight italicized text.

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