I'm wondering if there is someone who can develop a plugin that convert books to mp3 or m4a.
I've been looking for a way to listen to books using read-aloud. Unfortunately, Windows 10's native system TTS voices are too artificial and uncomfortable to listen to. I tried Kindle and Google Play Books read-aloud features but I find Microsoft Edge's native read -aloud voices are the most natural and acceptable.
So currently, I convert books to htmlz and unzip them and copy those files to Android devices and make Edge on Android read the content of index.html. Edge often fails to read sentences in PDF files possibly due to internal mark-ups and the Android version of Edge cannot read PDFs. Also, the Android version of Edge gets stalled while reading long TXT files so it seems converting books to HTML is the way to go at the moment.
But this is cumbersome. I've researched a little and Microsoft Edge seems to use the Microsoft Azure Text-to-speech technology, and it is available via
API for free.
If somebody can develop such a plugin that convert books to audio files using Microsoft Azure TTS API, it would be greatly appreciated.