Comment by pegasus
16 days ago
They still wouldn't be high quality. It's just not possible to capture the precise tone of voice in an annotation, and that precision I believe really makes a difference. My experience is that the deeper the narrator understands the text and conveys that understanding, the easier it becomes for me to absorb that information.
Have you tried those "podcast from a paper" models? They do some of the things you are saying they don't, although it's not 100% it's also miles ahead of for example human Polish TV lectors, or other monotone style narrations.