Comment by crazygringo

Audiobooks and other material you want to listen to (articles, blog posts, etc.).

There's a lot of stuff I don't have time to sit down and read, but want to listen to while I cook/laundry/shower/drive/etc.

Often recordings don't exist. Or when they do, an audiobook just has a bad voiceover artist, or one that just rubs you the wrong way.

The more human text-to-speech sounds, the easier and less distracting it is to listen to. There's real value in it, it's not "because I can".

You know how it's nicer to read in 300 dpi instead of 72 dpi? Or in Garamond rather than Courier? Or in Helvetica rather than Comic Sans? It's like that, only for speech.