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Hiring a voice actor to read it aloud is still the gold standard.
Definitely, but I know theres been a lot of developments.something something Whisp(e)r
Qwen TTS is good. You can break apart by paragraph and its okay.
I'm not sure if it is open source or not but I have had Audiblez in a tab for months meaning to try it out on some old books I'd like to listen to and will never have a reading done by a real person.
this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2026
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