[Promotion-technology] About synthetic-speech audio books

[Oso Calmo]

Thank you, Brett, for the information and your opinion on this matter.

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From: "Brett Boyer" <bboyer202 at gmail.com>
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> Hi. As far as I know you cannot purchase books read by synthetic speech. 
> You can buy books that can be read by your own computer device ither pc or 
> portable player. You can buy audio books from commercial companies read by 
> humans. But I don't think people would pay money to hear books read by 
> robotic speech.
> hth
> bb
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> From: "Oso Calmo" <osocalmo at yahoo.co.jp>
> To: <promotion-technology at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Monday, October 03, 2011 12:09 AM
> Subject: [Promotion-technology] About synthetic-speech audio books
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>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Nowadays, electronic books are becoming more and more important, 
>> specially with the ones that one can read on iPhone, iPad, etc.  I have 
>> also heard that there are audio books too.  That is books that are read 
>> by humans and recorded digitally and sold.
>> Are there also audio books made with synthetic speech in stead of natural 
>> human voice?
>> In that case, are they commercialized?
>> If so, where could I buy such books?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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