A couple months back I gave tts a shot because I had to work through a lot of material that I found incredibly dry.
I find all the free voices and on-device tts to be more of a distraction because they still sound very robotic.
But I also tried some of the paid services and their premium voiced and was pleasantly surprised. They sounded just good enough so that I didn’t really think about it.
The improvement in comprehension and speed, as well as staying on task was very noticeable. Listening alongside reading just kind of kept me focused.<p>Unfortunately the paid services are prohibitively expensive (which is understandable, afaik good tts takes quite a bit of compute) and so I haven’t integrated it into my normal workflow.<p>But the experience has me quite excited for when those same voices will be available on device.