I am always listening to audio books but they are no good anymore after playing with this for 2 minutes.
I am never really in the mood for a different voice. I am going to dial in the voice I want and only going to want to listen with that voice.
This is so awesome. So many audio books have been ruined by the voice actor for me. What sticks out in my head is The Book of Why by Judea Pearl read by Mel Foster. Brutal.
So many books I want as audio books too that no one would bother to record.
The ElevenReader app from ElevenLabs has been able to do that for a while now and they’ve licensed some celebrity voices like Burt Reynolds. You can use the browser share function to send it a webpage to read or upload a PDF or epub of a book.
It’s far from perfect though. I’m listening to Shattered Sword (about the battle of midway) which has lots of academic style citations so every other sentence or paragraph ends with it spelling out the citation number like “end of sentence dot one zero”, it’ll often mangle numbers like “1,000 pound bomb” becomes “one zero zero zero pound bomb”, and it tries way too hard to expand abbreviations so “Operation AL” becomes “Operation Alabama” when it’s really short for Aleutian Islands.
I am never really in the mood for a different voice. I am going to dial in the voice I want and only going to want to listen with that voice.
This is so awesome. So many audio books have been ruined by the voice actor for me. What sticks out in my head is The Book of Why by Judea Pearl read by Mel Foster. Brutal.
So many books I want as audio books too that no one would bother to record.