I’ve been using the ElevenLabs Reader app to read some articles during my drive and it’s been amazing. It’s great to be able to listen to Money Stuff whenever I want to. The audio quality is about 90% there. Occasionally, the tone of the sentence is wrong (like surprised when it should be sad) and the wrong enunciation (bow, like bowing down or tying a bow) but still very listenable.
The reading is very natural overall, though sometimes the emphasis is a bit off. What catches my ear is when Word A in a sentence receives stronger stress than Word B, but the longer context suggests that actually it should be Word B with the greater emphasis. An inexperienced human reader might miss that as well, but a professional narrator who is thinking about the overall meaning would get it right.
I prefer professional human narration when it is available, but the Reader app’s ability to handle nearly any text is wonderful. AI-read narration can have another advantage: clarity of enunciation. Even the most skillful human narrator sometimes slurs a consonant or two; the ElevenLabs voices render speech sounds distinctly while still sounding natural.
