I need an AI reading my own scientific writings , which I need to review, as audiobooks.
Like a data base where I can just upload all my crap and have them as audio files. This way I spend less time re-studying and can do it multitasking.
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A few ideas to start with
https://www.techradar.com/news/the-best-free-text-to-speech-software
Some lorem ipsum I pasted into NoteGPT for shits and giggles
https://notegpt.io/text-to-speech
[media=https://vocaroo.com/1mEqMRn7qjzy]
edit:
I got more curious and tried processing the majority of this more scientific article (if you want to read along to compare the audio) ...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1210127110
... using the gTTS library for Python (which uses a Google Translate API) on my laptop ... it does a decent job but leaves some awkward pauses (plus, reading aloud parenthetical text, including references to footnotes, figures, and tables, seems like it will always be odd), but there won't be any character limits or the like requiring you sign up for a paid tier of any online service or pay for anything to install:
[media=https://vocaroo.com/12hFNg8dqPZA]
https://www.techradar.com/news/the-best-free-text-to-speech-software
Some lorem ipsum I pasted into NoteGPT for shits and giggles
https://notegpt.io/text-to-speech
[media=https://vocaroo.com/1mEqMRn7qjzy]
edit:
I got more curious and tried processing the majority of this more scientific article (if you want to read along to compare the audio) ...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1210127110
... using the gTTS library for Python (which uses a Google Translate API) on my laptop ... it does a decent job but leaves some awkward pauses (plus, reading aloud parenthetical text, including references to footnotes, figures, and tables, seems like it will always be odd), but there won't be any character limits or the like requiring you sign up for a paid tier of any online service or pay for anything to install:
[media=https://vocaroo.com/12hFNg8dqPZA]
@Miram I'm glad it was actually useful. Thank you for BC.