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Re:The Day AppGet Died (2020) by causi on Friday February 18, 2022 @08:15AM (#30385296)
Microsoft's Text-To-Speech APIs are the best on the market.

Wow, I had no idea they were that good. Is there a way to get at them from a consumer level? For example, there are plenty of e-reader apps that use Google's TTS to read epub books as audiobooks. Anything similar for Microsoft or is it all on the developer side?

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Re:The Day AppGet Died (2020) by zidad on Friday February 18, 2022 @08:32AM (#30385467)
You can just try it out here from the browser if you like:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-service...

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Re:The Day AppGet Died (2020) by causi on Friday February 18, 2022 @09:16AM (#30385902)
That's a good demo, but it isn't much use for making audio content from ebooks.
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Re:The Day AppGet Died (2020) by hobo_mark on Friday February 18, 2022 @12:18PM (#30388422)
Transcribing an entire ebook this way is going to be _expensive_.
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Re:The Day AppGet Died (2020) by AshamedCaptain on Friday February 18, 2022 @09:18AM (#30385927)
They have basically been licensing L&H then Nuance until they bought it outright.
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