When I first tried this about a month ago I wasn't very impressed, the app repeated some words and didn't sound all that great. Plus there was a pretty small word count limit.

I just tried again today as I heard the audiobook feature was released. This is significantly better than it was the first time I tried the app. I copy and pasted 1430 words into the audio book portion and selected the pre made voice that sounded the least robotic. I don't recall any repeated words, the inflections are mostly right but not quite there yet. Some parts still sound a little robotic. If I were to compare this to eleven labs I would say this is about 70% of the way there....at least for the best default voice I tried.

With this being a new product I don't expect perfection right now, and with the audiobook portion I'm pretty happy with the direction this is going(this is actually about the level I was hoping for at launch).

Lets put it this way, a good narrator will beat this right now, but a good narrator would also beat eleven labs.

I've turned off audio books before because I thought the narrator was really bad. If LaunchPod was used on those few books I gave up on after 10 minutes, I would likely have continued on with the book.

In summary, this is better than bad human narration. An average narrator is still going to beat this. It's likely you or I would do a better job than Launchpod if we read lines multiple times and got rid of all of our stumbles, but that's going to take a lot longer than copying and pasting text into this.

So with that said I'm going to give it 4 out of 5 since I've seen meaningful progress in the past month.

To the developers, keep up the good work.