{"id":457,"date":"2022-06-04T04:21:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T04:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grousablebooks.com\/?p=457"},"modified":"2022-06-04T04:21:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T04:21:05","slug":"the-auto-narrated-audio-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/2022\/06\/the-auto-narrated-audio-book\/","title":{"rendered":"The auto-narrated audio book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently learned that Google Play can create audio books with auto-narration. Always intrigued by new technology, I decided to post Murder at Old St. Thomas&#8217;s to see how it sounded.<\/p>\n<p>Auto-narration has, like most text-to-speech technology, been either very bad or very expensive. In my opinion, this is pretty darned good. Take a listen:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Murder at Old St. Thomas&amp;#039;s audiobook\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/716991293?h=6fd0f9cdfa&amp;badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Now available at <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/audiobooks\/details?id=AQAAAEAClAXUFM\">Google Play<\/a> for only $5.99 USD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently learned that Google Play can create audio books with auto-narration. Always intrigued by new technology, I decided to post Murder at Old St. Thomas&#8217;s to see how it sounded. Auto-narration has, like most text-to-speech technology, been either very bad or very expensive. In my opinion, this is pretty darned good. Take a listen: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}