Would using a text to speech engine to read documents be a legitimate source of generating audio instead of manually reading it?

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Ok, is there a reason why its not, or do you just not like synthetic voices?

Thanks 

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What do you mean by target? I was under the impression that large quatities of audio with transcripts are needed. One of the possible sources listed is Wikipedia's audio library. Why wouldn't a synthetic voice reading articles that don't have a natural voice readings be usable?

Thanks 

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Hi fire7earth,

this was already discussed  in this thread:

Humans are great, but why not use commercial (and OSS) text to speech engines too?

Ken 

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