Comment Re:It must be useful for the blind people (Score 1) 206
Why should people with vision problems accept crap just because it's better than nothing?
Text to braille keeps the same kind of relationship to the content as "normal" sighted people have to text.
However, many with vision problems are not braille readers, so they have the options of synthesized speech, crappy human readers, or (less often) talented human readers.
Human speech can be sped up (chipmunk style, putting the experience into a decent time-frame), but synthesized speech must be listened to at the rate it comes out to be understood. But, for some sad reason, many human volunteers for audio-books for the visually impaired read in monotone voices, so perhaps there really isn't any issue here after all.
Someone should get aspiring actors to read the books for the credit, fame, and
