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RWood · 01-31-2008, 11:56 PM

Many of the DRM books we find offered at sites like Fictionwise have the "read aloud" function disabled. A recent article from the DAISY Consortium discusses some of the reasons why the Text to Speech (TTS) is feature is turned off in many DRM books.

This is a critical problem for any visually impaired person. While it may not be an issue for users of the Sony Reader, the Cybook Gen3, or the Amazon Kindle (to name a few) as they do not have a built in TTS feature (wouldn't that be a killer application for the next generation?) However the Microsoft Reader and Adobe's Acrobat Reader do have these features.

01-31-2008, 11:56 PM	#1
RWood Technogeezer Posts: 7,233 Karma: 1601464 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Virginia, USA Device: Sony PRS-500	Soundproofed Books Many of the DRM books we find offered at sites like Fictionwise have the "read aloud" function disabled. A recent article from the DAISY Consortium discusses some of the reasons why the Text to Speech (TTS) is feature is turned off in many DRM books. This is a critical problem for any visually impaired person. While it may not be an issue for users of the Sony Reader, the Cybook Gen3, or the Amazon Kindle (to name a few) as they do not have a built in TTS feature (wouldn't that be a killer application for the next generation?) However the Microsoft Reader and Adobe's Acrobat Reader do have these features.