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Some may find it easier to concentrate on an article while listening to it, especially in an environment with distracting sounds (with the use of headphones). In performing the articles aloud, readers can catch inconsistencies, redundancies, and awkward phrases not noticed by other editors, thus improving the written version of Wikipedia.
This page lists recordings of Wikipedia articles being read aloud, and the year each recording was made. Articles under each subject heading are listed alphabetically (by surname for people). For help playing Ogg audio, see Help:Media. To request an article to be spoken, see Category:Spoken Wikipedia requests.
Currently, there are no formal guidelines on Wikipedia on how to read an article aloud, and this could lead to a great deal of inconsistency and mistakes. Therefore, some guidelines are being collaborated below. These rules are a guideline only. If the rules prevent you from improving or producing a recording, ignore them.
The name of the article edited is displayed in the center of the circle. Clicking on the text opens a Wikipedia page in a new tab in the user's browser, showing the revision. A blue bar at the top of the screen will appear whenever a new Wikipedia user is registered, listing their username.
An audiobook (or a talking book) is a recording of a book or other work being read out loud. A reading of the complete text is described as "unabridged", while readings of shorter versions are abridgements. Spoken audio has been available in schools and public libraries and to a lesser extent in music shops since the 1930s.
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Apps such as textPlus and WhatsApp use Text-to-Speech to read notifications aloud and provide voice-reply functionality. Google Cloud Text-to-Speech is powered by WaveNet, [5] software created by Google's UK-based AI subsidiary DeepMind, which was bought by Google in 2014. [6] It tries to distinguish from its competitors, Amazon and Microsoft. [7]
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