It depends on the book. There ar definitely times when I prefer a human narrator. However, especially when I want to use a book as a reference rather than just listn to it for enjoyment, having the Kindle or other ebook format is priceless. I have over 1800 Kindle books and even more in epub, pdf and Apple Books formats. Voice Dream Reader with the Ivona Brian, James or Sharon voice is great. When using VoiceOver, I go with Alex or the female British or American Siri voices. Never thought of trying Samantha but I'll make a point of doing that now.
I really appreciate being able to have a huge library of Kindle books at hand. The audio books are prety bulky in comparison particularly where long series are involved. I shudder to think how much room the whole Expanse series would take up even with Audible's nice data compression. I don't have to worry about having a whole series on my iPHONe with ebooks but have often resorted to deleting audio books in order to recover space I needed. Every once in a while, I stop and reflect how amazing it is that in less than a decade, we've come from not being able to get books in accessible format at any price to now when it makes sense to talk about which voice we prefer to read damned near anything we want to with. Even more stunning, it's sometimes cheeper to buy human narrated books than the same regular ebooks. To top it off, we can fit everything including thousands of fully accessible books into a pocket. On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 1:35 PM Gerardo Corripio <[email protected]> wrote: > As for me, I love the James voice for male-character books, or also it > could be Paul from Neospeech since it reminds me of the Kurzweil1000 days; > for female-character books, I like Kate from Neospeech. Be as it is, for me > a human-narrated book is paradise! But as some of you guys have already > mentioned, if a book isn’t available on BARD, Audible or scribd, I’d have > to do with the TTS reading. > > Gera > Enviado desde mi iPhone SE de Telcel > > El 16 abr 2019, a la(s) 8:14 a. m., Russ Kiehne <[email protected]> > escribió: > > > In my case, I perfer Neospeech Kate using voice dream reader over using > Samantha TTS engine to read Kindle books. > > > > -----Original Message----- From: M. Taylor > > Sent: Monday, April 15, 2019 9:25 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: A TTS Engine instead of a Human Voice for Reading a Novel? Maybe > > > > Hello Everyone, > > > > I love the iOS Kindle App because it works so well with my Focus 40 Blue > > Braille display. > > > > However, for whatever reason, until recently, I've never used the > VoiceOver > > Samantha TTS engine to read an entire novel in the Kindle app. > > > > Not long ago, I was searching for a book in Audible, because it is not > > available on BARD or on Over Drive, and found it. The price of the audio > > book was $19, $17 in Apple books. Since the audio length of the book was > > just over 5 hours, I decided to see if a Kindle edition was available. > Yes, > > it was and for a mere $1.99. So, I purchased the Kindle version and > used my > > beloved Samantha TTS engine to read the novel. > > > > After I finished the Kindle version, a friend of mine purchased the > audible > > version. So, I decided to give it a quick listen to see if I would like > the > > book any better or less with a human narrator at the proverbial helm. > > > > You know what? I discovered that I actually preferred the Kindle version > > wit the TTS engine, better. The funny thing is, I am absolutely certain > > that I would have thoroughly enjoyed the human narrator edition had I not > > experienced the TTS engine rendition, first. > > > > Now I'm certainly not saying that a TTS engine is better than a human > > narrator but I am saying, that for me, at least, a TTS engine is > definitely > > a viable option for reading novels, especially when it comes to saving a > few > > dollars. > > > > Mark > > > > > > -- > > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone > list. > > > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or > if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the > owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: > [email protected]. 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