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Originally Posted by Barty
Speakers on tablets tend to be tinny and horrible. I try to use an external Bluetooth speaker when I can.
When it comes to computers, don't say never 
Anyway, it isn't necessarily bad thing that TTS does not perform like a person. A human reader invariably brings a little bit of their personality and puts their own interpretation to the text . TTS, on the other hand, is neutral and unvaried. That may work better in some instances.
For things like poetry, you want the human performance. For example, listen to Alan Rickman read My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun (you can find it on Spotify). Marvelous.
Not too sound ghoulish, but I can see some company licensing a celebrity's voice for computerized speech in the future, the way images of past celebs can currently be digitized, manipulated, and used in commercials and films, etc. |
I also use bluetooth speakers. I have a Samsung Galaxy Light phone I retired and re-purposed as a TTS reader using Moon+. Connecting it to a bluetooth speaker works great.
I am convinced, based on how horrible TTS was just a few years ago and how it has improved, about 3 years and you will not be able to tell it is a computer speaking on TTS.
100% agree, whole industry of copyrighted famous voices for TTS. The legal questions of who owns what will be legion though.