Not exactly what you asked for but recently I've found this site with great voice generation https://micmonster.com/, it usually doesn't have that robotic accent and it's free with a 300 characters limit. I'm using it for my for my texts that doesn't have audios. Source: 9 months ago

Here is a really good Farsi text to speech: https://micmonster.com/. Source: over 1 year ago

In reaction to the recent news that Google plan to shut down Google Podcasts and roll it into YouTube Music, I made a couple of comments on the announcement. I realized that I should probably share them here as well. Any further thoughts will be shared in separate posts. Source: 9 months ago

I had no idea that the Panama Canal required fresh water. Peak price being paid for canal passage is $900k https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly92aWRlby1hcGkud3NqLmNvbS9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcy93c2ovd2hhdHMtbmV3cw%3D%3D&episode=YjkxMGQxZWUtNTYwYy0xMWVlLWEwODMtZmI4Mjg3NjRmN2U3. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

I've tried: - Restarting my phone - reinstalling Google podcasts - Using my second Google account (same thing) - Trying from https://podcasts.google.com/ on my Desktop. Source: 12 months ago

Do any of you guys have issue with the podcasts.google.com when trying to listen to podcasts? When I try to press "subscriptions", "queue" or any other parts of the left menu I can't seem to be able to press them! It's almost like they're not there. The only part on the left side that I can press is the hamburger icon at the top of the left corner.. Source: about 1 year ago

Thanks to those suggesting other Art-like podcasts, I will check them out. The best Art Bell podcast archive I have found is titled "art bell tape vault" even has a website. The audio quality of that archive seems the best too. I use podcasts.google.com to listen to them. Source: about 1 year ago