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jonnyace · 01-26-2011, 12:28 AM

Hello all,

I would like to report a TTS bug. I can reproduce this on my Kindle 3 (Wifi) and I wonder if others can experience this too.

It seems that the TTS has problems with a number of common words/phrases:

- in fact
- father
- family
- Dr (abbrev of doctor)

To see this: create a TXT file with some sentences with the above words. Use Calibre or something equivalent to convert to a mobi document (Kindle can do TTS with Mobi), and use TTS to read it.

In addition, Kindle also rushes over certain punctuation marks, extra whitespaces like when occuring at start of chapter, parentheses.

These are minor glitches which are confusing and irritating and mar the otherwise very solid TTS experience.

01-26-2011, 12:28 AM	#1
jonnyace Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: Amazon Kindle 3	TTS bug Hello all, I would like to report a TTS bug. I can reproduce this on my Kindle 3 (Wifi) and I wonder if others can experience this too. It seems that the TTS has problems with a number of common words/phrases: - in fact - father - family - Dr (abbrev of doctor) To see this: create a TXT file with some sentences with the above words. Use Calibre or something equivalent to convert to a mobi document (Kindle can do TTS with Mobi), and use TTS to read it. In addition, Kindle also rushes over certain punctuation marks, extra whitespaces like when occuring at start of chapter, parentheses. These are minor glitches which are confusing and irritating and mar the otherwise very solid TTS experience.