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Originally Posted by davidfor
What that says is that the problem is in "Natural Reader Online". This demonstrates that they have taken a cheap solution, convert to PDF and use someones TTS solution without truly knowing who it works.
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And for the record, it didn't. And I wasn't impressed with the handling of some of the text. The test case I used has a heading for "Chapter n" and the first letter of the first paragraph after this is a drop-cap. After processing the file, it read that first letter, then the heading and then the rest of the first word. That's pretty crappy behaviour and make me question what else they get wrong.
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Voice Dream Reader is a marvelous piece of software that does all the formatting and processing this software doesn’t do, but unfortunately still uses very robotic sounding voices. I reached out to the developer and asked if he would be willing to work with these voices which use “neural processing“. He said there are privacy issues since all the processing is done online. It’s clear that natural reader online is doing exactly what you said: taking advantage of the processing and not spending any time on the software. But actually I have made my peace with it now that I have figured out how to create a readable PDF with no line breaks across pages. There are settings, at least in my phone application, that prevent it from reading headers and other non-narrative text like footnotes.
