Why would they when you can just plug any epub into a program and use google tts. Ive listened to about a book a day for the past few years doing this and i love it. Yeah it took getting used too, but once you find an ai voice you like and figure out which words to auto replace to sound right its honestly better then an audiobook. Well at least to me it is, i could never stand when the reader would change their voice for different characters.
this post was submitted on 13 May 2025
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Save a profile in tts server, then go into read > tts settings and change voice to profile you saved. I don't remember but you may need readera premium.
Beautiful, it works. Why not.