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Re:Oration (iOS) Turns PDFs into Audiobooks by luigi23 on Sunday February 11, 2024 @08:17PM (#39340461)
unfortunately it has to be finnicky, otherwise it'd cannibalize audiobooks apps (amazon got angry recently)
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Re:Oration (iOS) Turns PDFs into Audiobooks by jasonjmcghee on Monday February 12, 2024 @11:23AM (#39346707)
I don't think that's true. SOTA open source is still much worse than eleven labs and requires a dedicated modern GPU for any kind of speed of generation. Certainly can't on-demand, on-device on an iPhone.

Apple already is doing very high quality generated audiobooks, but you do it for your book as the author.

https://authors.apple.com/support/4519-digital-narration-aud...

"Mitchell" sounds exactly like a very popular narrator "Ray Porter".

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