Voice quality and price seems good enough for me to use a lot - as most books / media I want to read are too niche for Audible, etc.

I tried to order, but it errored out because of some file not readable error, but error was fatal and with no recourse but doing everything again.

I would use this all the time if it was a little smoother. Hit me up if I can be helpful. (see my profile here for email)

Will do, thanks for letting us know about the error.

Update: these guys were great.

They quickly reached out to me with the fixed file and the output is really good.

This is the first voice synthed audiobook that I can actually stand to listen to at length, and it plays well using Podcast Addict on Android, and the voice speeds up well too (encoded at 93%, listened to it at ~1.7x)

Does this use Google Text to Speech service?

That uses Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML), which can achieve realistic pauses gaps in speech.

https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/ssml

Sounds more like Polly :)

Very nice quality — though it still sounds robotic a tad. There is no “breathing” breaks.

Nice work though!

Don't worry it's coming soon :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22029803

We're working on releasing an API for Replica - we'll eventually be able to provide even more realistic voices you could use.

https://replicastudios.com

Auditus looks like a great idea.

FYI - the "Explore Voices" link gives a 404.

Thanks for letting us know about the issue, we are working in a fix. For now, use the voice explorer on the homepage: https://auditus.cc