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Do you have a Voice to recommend for this? Neospeech Bridget and Paul seem like the best to me. I usually find that I can't understand the text if I speed it up even a little bit with Voices worse than these.
'Graham' is great for technical stuff. Brian is good for fiction. I put them on 5*speed.
I can't understand any words at that speed even when I am careful about how I speed it up. Any tips about how to listen at that speed?
Listen at * 2 speed first. If I recall, that was initially difficult but possible if you listen actively (ie. pay attention). Once that is easy enough to follow and if you start getting bored move to a higher setting. Essentially I taught myself to speed-read but audibly. The noise isn't particularly recognizable as English but with practice it is comprehensible. It may not be worth your while to get up to that speed. I do recommend at least some degree of speedup though, just because listening is (usually) much slower than reading.
I have another question. When I have tried to convert ebooks to audiobooks with programs similar to textaloud I had a problem with extra text that was in the book or the article (like foot notes, dedications and other such things). Do you just go through the text and delete these things or have you found a better way?
I currently listen at *2 speed. Trying to train myself to x2.5 now. It seems like the best thing I could do with my time given how much time I spend listening.