Originally Posted by HarryT
TTS systems are just too "dumb" to be a threat to audiobooks. Eg, consider the following:
"Yesterday I read a book. Tomorrow I shall read another".
Any human reader will handle the two different pronunciations of "read" without even thinking about it. I've yet to find a TTS system which gets it right.
How does the Kindle 2 do on that particular example, as a matter of interest?
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