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Originally Posted by Ankh
That's a very good point. A combination of audio book and text version would be a natural evolution of the book as we know it today.
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I thought television was the natural evolution of the book as we know it.
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And a perfect model to take care our visually impaired brethren, text-to-speech tech is nowhere close to the real (professionally done audio book) deal.
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There are two issues with this, though. One is that a lot of visually impaired people prefer tts to audiobooks. The larger one is that adding professional audiobook capabilities to e-books will add a lot more to the cost.
And while it would be cool to sync e-book text and audio, I don't think that there is any real way of doing that with a professional audio book.