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[wslh]

Yes, TTS quality is far from real people reading. I think the service must be something like Amazon's Mechanical Turk but with a SLA since recordings must be quickly generated.

BTW, I played doing a voice recognition and TTS under .NET for Hacker News. It's a code example but real people is the best option. If you want to check: http://blog.databigbang.com/voice-recognition-content-extrac...