I have to admit, as a former audiobook producer, I am partial to real human readers.
What kind of books do you need converted? Old stuff might be in public domain on librevox (quality varies). Mark Steyn is an exception reader and you can download some great titles for a $40 trial membership.
I miss the Radio Reader, Dick Estelle.
I was able to correspond with him, prior to his death.
I have to admit, as a former audiobook producer, I am partial to real human readers.
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Yep.
Computers have come a decent way in the last few decades in making artificial voices sound more human, but when it comes to delivering sentences with contextual inflection, the technology still isn’t quite there yet.
It requires the listener to concentrate harder on the meaning of the words that they are hearing, because we are so used to communicating with each other, we can add so much extra semniotics to our oral communication subconsciously that a listener just automatically knows what is being said. With the digital reading, the listener gets worn out translating heard words into contexts.