Folks probably will think me silly for this, but I prefer TTS. I have access to voice actor audiobooks but I pick the .epub files instead. I made a little extension to inject window.speechSynthesis with "Microsoft Steffan Online (Natural) - English (United States)" at rate=6 when I hit a hotkey. At high speed it's much clearer and natural sounding than a sped up voice actor recording.
I also prefer TTS. The spin voice actors put on the text always distracts me. With text to speech I only get what's in the text itself.
I wrote a Perl/Tk GUI script for my file manager to manage text to speech through Festival 1.96 w/voice_nitech_us_awb_arctic_hts. Unlike neural network AI models it runs fine even on very slow machines.
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Folks probably will think me silly for this, but I prefer TTS. I have access to voice actor audiobooks but I pick the .epub files instead. I made a little extension to inject window.speechSynthesis with "Microsoft Steffan Online (Natural) - English (United States)" at rate=6 when I hit a hotkey. At high speed it's much clearer and natural sounding than a sped up voice actor recording.
I also prefer TTS. The spin voice actors put on the text always distracts me. With text to speech I only get what's in the text itself.
I wrote a Perl/Tk GUI script for my file manager to manage text to speech through Festival 1.96 w/voice_nitech_us_awb_arctic_hts. Unlike neural network AI models it runs fine even on very slow machines.