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Originally Posted by Martinoptic
I've not tried an ai read book, but those that have been text to speeches in the past have been dreadful.
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Sometimes in the past, when I was doing a walk or some other mundane activity and was short on podcasts to listen to, I'd occasionally go through my Pocket backlog of longform articles and have it "read" the articles to me via Android's TTS engine. I think Instapaper has this feature as well, but I've not used it yet.
For a certain kind of thing it was "good enough"--like a news article, or perhaps a non-fiction book. I imagine some people may want to use it simply because they want to digest the thing but can't "read" it at that moment.
One thing I have heard people complain about is wanting to switch between reading the book and having it dictated (like they started a book in bed and want to continue making progress on their commute to work the next morning), and Amazon not being able to sync the progress between the two. I wonder if the AI reader is meant to facilitate that.