December 15, 2023

Text-to-speech is not just screen readers

Hi friends,

I wrote a blog post about how I read books using text-to-speech.

Text-to-speech is not just screen readers: How and why I use synthetic voices to read me books

I could not get enough Severus Snape fanfiction. But I had a problem: I also wanted to knit. A lot. I could not get enough knitting and I could not get enough Severus Snape. When, a couple years earlier, I had experimented with speech to text (the experiment failed) I also discovered that my early model Mac laptop could to text-to-speech. It was pretty robotic and I didn't find much use for it. Until suddenly I very much did have a use for it.

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Thanks for reading and see you on the internet!

AK