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Re:Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free by nickpinkston on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @12:52AM (#22104585)
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)

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Re:Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free by KloudTrader on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @01:13AM (#22104669)
Will do, thanks for letting us know about the error.
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Re:Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free by nickpinkston on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @10:23PM (#22124538)
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)

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