Comment Re:Multiple Characters and Lectures (Score 1) 29
I suspect we will eventually end up with a (hopefully standardized) markup language for authors/editors to use to let the software know when to make those tonal shifts and other things like how to inflect certain words, what tone (cheerful, serious, etc) to use in different parts of the text, etc.
That raises the question, is it more cost effective to have editors poor over the text, add markup, and run it through QA versus simply hiring someone to read the text? Perhaps a self published author would spend the time on their book to optimize it for audio, but it seems like there is still plenty advantage to hiring an experienced narrator.