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Great project. Are many of the books in a format that can easily be converted into audio? Is there a way to search for them, and information on what software your readers find useful for this purpose?

(Note: A lot of print media these days has switched to far-to-small font-sizes. Less of a problem for (zoomable) digital media, but for many that's still a barrier.)



There are many books available as audio, some are human-read, some were automated. You can see lists here:

human-read: https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/categories/1

computer-generated: https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/categories/2

IIRC many of the human-generated ones come from LibriVox, many of the computer-generated ones came from a collaboration with Microsoft.


For the Audio part, I suggest https://desktop.with.audio


IMO, most audio read by humans (esp. voice actors) are far preferable to machine readings. Also, I found no demos on that page.




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