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Originally Posted by jonathan2022
try Paper2audio. it is available for Android not sure about apple. You get 56 hours a week free. supports epub. you get to read along whilst audio plays. the 56 hours resets a week after you signup same time. reset time and date is shown in profile.
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I have a Paper2Audio subscription, although the free plan is already more than I need. I was so pleased to find it that I thought I should help them along, at least for the first year. After that I may drop back to the free plan, but right now I am a happy user.
They tell me that they are planning to introduce new voices and a Kindle interface, so I will see.
I think that all of the apps providing Kindle access must be doing OCR on the read.amazon.com webpage because I get a lot of really poor translations from some of them. Words or entire sentences out of place, skipped words and sometimes really bizarre narration like reading the word stop as "sto p" and the pronunciation of some words is often using the wrong context. The word "bow" refers to a pretty decoration on a present and the front part of a boat, and all of the narration I have heard for that word use the first without understanding that the people are referring to the front of a boat or the act of courtesy in greeting nobility. Annoying, but I guess understandable.