There's a chrome extension called audiblogs [0] that can convert any article into audio format. Here's the audio version of this article: https://audiblogs.com/share/4ce7e9c6-0970-4fa6-8cdb-ac244104...
> An automated text to speech translation is the worst of both.
I think you're underestimating how much better we're getting at making automated voices sound human. This site is way better than the average text to speech, and technology is only going to get better at it.