Because if there is a screen with the ebook nearby while you listen, you can occasionally pause and look at the formatting, white space, etc of the ebook, to find your place and verify chapters etc While a true audiobook needs to convey the content of the book without any visual or paper display. Last, using an as-you-go voice reader with an ebook, such as on an Amazon Kindle, on a phone or tablet, is slightly different than a real audiobook. A human audiobook narrator takes a short pause, or a long pause, between minor or major sections of a text, while a computerized narrator just continues at the same pace from end of sentence in one section to start of sentence in the next section.
I insert break text, such "new section.", or "quote" and "unquote" to mark different sections of the text. I do some extensive editing to an ebook text before processing with Speech2Go, to remove footnote references, to remove long URLs, etc long tables with text don't translate to audio well, some acronyms also. The text from an ebook does not usually translate well automatically to an audiobook without some manual editing. You can play a sample of the voices at the Speech2Go website before purchasing, to try to find your preferred voice. but I bought an Ivona UK voice - because the UK voice sounds a bit foreign to my ears anyways, so I find a computerized UK voice less off-putting than a computerized USA english voice.
The basic software is 29 Euros but you need to buy at least one voice, 39 Euros each, or a combination package, at a slight discount, of software plus one voice (55 euros) or software plus two voices, etc There's a 30-day free trial. It takes plain text as an input and creates an. I use Speech2Go, Windows desktop software.
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