Comments on Profile Post by rhythmdevils

I keep up a blog about ME/CFS and lots of patients can't read very much, so I'm trying t find the best service to make natural sounding mp3 files of readings of my writing. Speechify is usually recommended as the most natural but they have a character limit. NaturalReaders has some nice pronunciation customization options. Both are crazy expensive.

I'd like to use Google, but the process is really cumbersome AFAIK

Depending on the volume of work you could get away finding someone to record audio for cheaper than the cost of one of those TTS services. That's ignoring the whole "using robots when you can pay a (voice) artist" debacle, but I will readily point out that a lot of folks' audio is just outright bad.

@Lyander id love to have a human record my writing but I don’t have time. I’m tweaking my writing right up to when I post it. It would take a few days to organize someone recording a voice recording for me. Unfortunately

The irony being that although audio makes things seemingly more accessible in terms of initial cognitive demand, as it is a passive vs active activity, I find it more demanding on limited energy reserves vs reading.