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I wonder how many years it will be until they can get a text to speech that is truly usable for e-books. I think with some text markup they should be able to add in the intended emotion.
I recently discovered a feature on my GPS that I didn't know existed. I've never got into text messaging because I've spent too much time at the end of a pager to want to be that accessible. Someone sent me a text message while I was in my car though and it popped up with a message that asked if I wanted to listen too it. A sexy female Aussie voice read the text message to me and did a good job of it. It makes sense that they already have the TTS built in.
The best audio book production that I've heard is the Philip Pullman "His Dark Materials" series. They have separate actors reading each of the parts and it's like listening to a play or an old radio production. Most books can't justify that kind of expense though. I don't think they'll every be able to reproduce that experience from TTS but it got me wondering what they'd be able to do in 20 years.
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