I just tried the the Alexa-powered TTS. It is indeed far better than it ever was on the old KK. Not perfect — there were a couple of instances of unnatural use of emphasis in the short science essay I listened to — and one major flaw: Alexa went straight from the final sentence of that essay to the next essay in the book with no pause. Had I not known the title of the next essay, I would have assumed the title was a continuation of the previous essay. She needs to learn how to pause between chapters and to differentiate chapter titles from the rest of the text. Overall, however, the flow was much more natural, and the phrasing was, with the minor blips I noted, surprisingly good. I could see using this feature as an alternative way to access a work of fiction.
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