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Originally Posted by curstpriest
And it is really not true that TTS as a technology is not good. Quality TTS engines exist (I have used AT&T natural voice engine, as well as others that use context prediction to calculate inflection and reduce mispronunciations, and they do an incredible job. This technology is pretty old too, atleast 5 if not 10 or more years...
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Entirely agree with you curstpriest. There are some excellent TTS engines out there, and every year they get better - more accurate, and better voices. I'm sure it's just that the TTS engine on the Kindle is a fairly basic one, with little in the way of contextual analysis to enable it to determine if, for example, "Dr." should be "Doctor" or "Drive". I just tried TTS on my Kindle again, after upgrading to firmware version 3.1, and it has definitely improved. On my Kindle, it used to ignore periods/full stops, but now it pauses at them, and the voice inflexion is correct for the end of a sentence. Huge improvement on what it was like before!
