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Originally Posted by mocelet
Unless of course the audio was computer generated direct from the text. Sure it isn't nearly as good as a performance by a human reader, but if it were free or nearly free, it might just be tolerable in a car.
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hmm... honestly i doubt that i would want a computer-read audio book if you paid me to take it. i have a friend who is blind ; he has voice synthesizing software on his computer to help him use it, which will read any text on the screen to him. it lets him get work done that he otherwise could not do, but it's certainly not anything i would want to listen to for any kind of pleasure or entertainment (except sometimes we make fun of it when it pronounces a word in an odd way, does that count ?), and i can't think of *anything* less capable of conveying emotion or ambiance.
unless they have made some really big advances in computer reading programs that i don't know about, which of course is completely possible.