I love this! I really like this and want to use it more -- but there are glitches that can be frustrating over time. This includes the pronunciation of words with apostrophes. It'll split the word into two words like in the Politico profile piece of John Boehner, it'd say "Boehner s" for "Boehner's."
I also have a hearing loss so I like to follow the text as the audio reads along. The automatic scrolling is botched. It will jump up and down the page for no reason. Or it'll jump up and down when the text is in italics or when there's a colon. Very strange. I'll try to manually scroll back to what I read but then it gets especially frustrating if it's a long read.
I don't like to complain but I'm sharing this in hopes of improvements!
Hey Nate, I love the concept of listenable articles for people on the go, and happen to thoroughly enjoy recording them, as well! If you ever consider livening up your audio pieces with real human voices, I'd love to contribute. I'm a professional voice over artist and I work from my own home studio. Would be thrilled to work with you all! You can hear a sample of my article narration here: soundcloud.com/rtgk/alexa-should-we-trust-you-the-atlantic
Replies
ogsupa
Amazin!
Pros:By far the best text-to-speech engine out there
Cons:Nothing