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Originally Posted by Zita
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My sister has visual problems and needs to have books read out. When I got a Kindle, we both thought the Text-to-Speech and Voice Guide features would enable her to use the Kindle without having to look at the screen. But Text-to-Speech isn't really good enough for those who can't use the screen - you can't slow the voice down, you can't repeat a word or a sentence, and the cursor doesn't follow the voice, so it's not easy to stop it and take it back to an earlier sentence you'd like to have read again.
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Just for future reference... When I need to have things repeated much, I increase the font size so it's not too big of a chunk. Then, when I need to replay, I just stop (not pause) TTS, then turn it back on.
It starts over at the top of the page, so how far back it takes you depends on the size of the font. Some are so big it's only a sentence at a time. That would suck a lot of battery power, though, so I usually keep it so it's about 10 sentences a page.
I set TTS at slow speed from the menu - that option is only there once TTS is running.
Regarding the stripping, not a lawyer on the planet would try to go after someone who stripped DRM for accessibility reasons like this. It would be their and any pro-drm company's worst nightmare of a case and PR - would be the end of DRM for TTS for sure.