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Originally Posted by RWood
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. |
Agreed, sounds unkind to me. By the way one of the Korean readers (same price as Sony) has text to speech ALREADY! ( I am sure you know this but for those that don't)
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11463