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Old 12-04-2009, 02:08 PM   #28
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Originally Posted by DaleDe View Post
One of the problems with getting too high a quality in the TTS is that the publishers and writers guild will demand that it be disabled, as they claim it cuts into sales of the audio versions of the book. It is a fine line but Amazon already crossed it. It do think Jinke should offer the user the choice of downloading voices but not provide too good a one with the device.

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Which is insane, since a good Audio book (performance) uses different Voices, inflections for the different characters.

TTS is a simple Narrator and can not convey the nuances of the "scene" being read.
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