kind of, but it’s annoying to set up for non-fiction books with lots of quotes and ellipses, and extra painful when the ebook’s footnotes and citations are formatted weirdly.
Straightforward novels, memoirs, etc are mostly fine and useable, but lacks the charm of a narrator doing different voices. You can make AI recognize character dialogue and give it different voices, but it’s hit or miss whether it’ll detect the right person in my experience.
Balabolka is older program for turning any book for audiobook. Several ebook reader software also offer read aloud feature.
Several good sounding AI options are currently behind paywalls. Text to speech tech is going forward with great speech, but public offerings are currently limited.
While we’re at it, can we make any book into an audiobook with some AI shit now?
kind of, but it’s annoying to set up for non-fiction books with lots of quotes and ellipses, and extra painful when the ebook’s footnotes and citations are formatted weirdly.
Straightforward novels, memoirs, etc are mostly fine and useable, but lacks the charm of a narrator doing different voices. You can make AI recognize character dialogue and give it different voices, but it’s hit or miss whether it’ll detect the right person in my experience.
there’s this (self-hosted; requires your own software to run on) but idk how it sounds
Balabolka is older program for turning any book for audiobook. Several ebook reader software also offer read aloud feature.
Several good sounding AI options are currently behind paywalls. Text to speech tech is going forward with great speech, but public offerings are currently limited.
I suppose… but why would you want a grating AI voice-over?