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Originally Posted by Marcy
If vision is so bad you can't see the screen, I can't imagine enjoying text-to-speech via a synthesized voice on a regular basis. Why not just get audiobooks instead and stick them on a cheap MP3 player? Why pay for an ereader where most of the cost is due to the screen *that you can't see*?
-Marcy
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Perhaps the reader/listner wants to read material that is not sold as an audio book. Perhaps the reader/listener wants to have more options then are available on tape. So they buy a Kindle or a Pocketbook so that they can listen to books that are not available as an audio book.
Or perhpas you are someone with a learning disability. You pump up the font size so their are fewer words on the screen and you use text to speech. This is a practice that teachers, parents, and grown adults with learning disabilities are reporting has allowed them to read more and enjoy what they are reading.
Just because we do not use a feature on a day to day basis does not mean that it is not useful to others.
I know folks who use TTS at the gym because it changes the pages for them when they are working out on the treadmill. Turn the volume down and read without having to push a button or swipe a screen, it sounds safer to me.