Hello Aaron,
I hope you are feeling well today. I believe what you may use is called OCR Image to speech recognition, here is one of many links.
https://api.products.aspose.app/ocr/en/image-to-speech
You select browse on that page, and then select an image from your computer that you know has text in it, then select recognize.
It will take a few minutes and then it should try to read the text to you.
You may find a USB scanner for $5 at the local secondhand thrift or charity shop. You would place your book on it like a photocopier and then upload the picture to the site. I am sure you can get OCR on your computer too. OCR stands for optical character recognition. Image to speech.
It takes a few minutes to translate the image into text. You can right click and download the audio from the little audio bar which appears, or just listen in the browser. I do not know the limits it imposes on how much you can do at a time, and for certain it tracks people and will limit how much you get in total. That is typical behavior of these kinds of websites but it will get you familiar with the technology in general and how you will use it.
I am listening to a screenshot of your message right now.
The AI ladies voice says things a bit differently.
retinopathy becomes retino paty
prematurity becomes garbled
you are having trouble raiding without assistance the AI says, I'll come raiding with you Aaron, if I can be captain !
using vose over
It is a free and cheap translator that is for sure, but it's like all such things of the past, it's quirky and your brain will have no difficulty translating it's sillyness into something useful. I never could understand my blind friends computer terminals, they got used to them of course, and then turned up the speed to something astonishing which made it impossible for me to catch anything at all. Not that it mattered, takes me down memory lane. Good luck!