Google Play Books Auto-narrated Audiobooks vs ImageGlass

Google Play Books Auto-narrated Audiobooks is a web service for publishers converting eligible ebooks into digitally narrated audiobooks. It requires an EPUB ebook offered on Google Play and publisher-owned audio rights for the selected language and countries. Supported input languages listed are English, Spanish, French, German, Hindi, and Brazilian Portuguese, with seven voice languages available. Publishers can select from more than 50 narrator combinations covering language, accent, and gender. Editing controls include pronunciation, narrator voice and speed, character voices, and pauses. Finished audio can be published on Google Play Books or downloaded for distribution elsewhere. Google says existing ebooks can be converted in under two hours and publishers receive a 52% revenue share on Google Play sales. Creation, publishing, and downloads are listed at free, with no charge for a limited time. Commercial rights are restricted. The service is intended for books with limited dialogue and emotional content; image-heavy or data-heavy titles are less suitable.

ImageGlass is a desktop image viewer for browsing and viewing image files on Windows, macOS, and Linux. It supports more than 90 formats, including WEBP, GIF, SVG, PNG, JXL, HEIC, and RAW. Viewing tools include slideshows, thumbnails, color picking, hardware-accelerated rendering, and EXIF information through ExifGlass. Built-in edits cover rotation, flipping, cropping, lossless compression, and resizing. Pro adds an HDR Tone Mapper, free and margin panning, File Watcher, custom mouse clicks, and settings and feature locks. The app can associate external editing apps, use custom hotkeys with them, and accept extensions built with its SDK. ImageGlass says it does not scan image libraries for analytics or send images, filenames, or folder paths elsewhere. Classic is free. Pro Individual is $14.90, paid once purchase; Pro Team is $69, paid once purchase. Pro Business is $9,917 a year. The 14-day Business trial requires no account, online activation, or device lock for local license verification.