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It can be done but you have to manually set inflection on almost every line. Even then, it’s a pale comparison to a voice actor who knows the story and puts emotion into it. It’s a double edged blade, on one hand more books get audio versions, on the other they are soulless readings that fail to capture the tone of the text.
I have mild aphantasia and human inflection/emotion helps me enjoy books. While AI might bring more audiobooks to market, those are lost on me. I might as well be listening to someone read a phone book.