May
7th
2018
The first reading of one of my fics! · 4:34pm May 7th, 2018
Fanfiction Reader has rendered a voice-synthesis version of Changeling Space Program on YouTube! The program doesn't have any sense of timing, and it stumbles badly trying to pronounce unfamiliar words, but it provides a way to read (or re-read) the story without staring at a screen!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAJkWGZt-Zg&list=PL9t4yi6D1qAnclJl8AvSnq8W8rpay8guE
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Kris Overstreet · 422 views
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#Changeling Space Program
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Aww, i was excited for a moment there.
I already use a tex to speech converter to read fanfiction... While walking around the neigborhood.
Heh. I already read all fanfiction via text-to-speech generated audiobooks, using an audio-book player app on my smart phone.
Keeps track exactly where I've been on the 1400+ voice-files there, so I can jump between stories if I feel like it.
Allows me to read fanfiction while, say, grocery shopping, drawing comics, or playing something relaxing like Minecraft.
Never been reading so much in my life. Multitasking for the win!
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Oh, you too!
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I still read-read a lot, but I have also gotten great use out of FIMFiction's integrated text-to-speech since they added that.
Yeah but why not jsut use the reader on the site. assuming your computer has a nice voice to use. I read on my phone so Siri voice is smooth "Hello Flutter-she"
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You get used to that sort of thing after a few weeks. Or maybe it was years? Either way, I've grown so used to "Microsoft Mary" I don't even register it's idiosyncrasies anymore.
...Well, it helped that the first MLP-fic I ever read was PenStroke's Better Living Through Science and Ponies, and that having a synthetic voice read out GlaDOS' parts was just too hilarious.
Apoleowosa is what it sounded like when it said Appleloosia.
I do this sometimes when I need to "read" The Maretian while driving. I have Fimfiction read it to me from my phone plugged into my radio's aux jack, using Google's default voice.