Thread: Have ereader development peaked?
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Old 06-15-2011, 12:43 AM   #73
tomsem
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Originally Posted by AlbertaCowboy View Post
As soon as they make a Sean Connery text to speech option, I'll buy a Kindle!
"It wash the besht of timesh, it wash the worsht of timesh".
Pure magic.
That is not as implausible as you might think. Nuance, the company Amazon licenses the TTS from, does have a Scottish-inflected voice (but it is female):

http://www.nuance.com/for-business/b...izer/index.htm

I would like to see Amazon sell some of these additional 'inflections'. I would definitely buy a few of them.
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