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tomsem · 10-04-2011, 11:38 PM

Unfortunately Fire has no expansion capability so you can't use a Bluetooth keyboard, and there's no microphone either (unless the audio jack supports audio in). So all the input has to go through a virtual keyboard. That's not going to make for a very pleasant content creation experience.

Some folks have been told Fire will have TTS but I'm skeptical. I hope at least they'll make Kindle 4 Android (I assume Fire reader is based on the same code base) TTS aware, and at least let you purchase and install a TTS engine on Fire if you want one (Amazon App Store sells SVOX, which is pretty good and only $4 per voice).

10-04-2011, 11:38 PM	#12
tomsem Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,959 Karma: 27060153 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: USA Device: iPhone 15PM, Kindle Scribe, iPad mini 6, PocketBook InkPad Color 3	Unfortunately Fire has no expansion capability so you can't use a Bluetooth keyboard, and there's no microphone either (unless the audio jack supports audio in). So all the input has to go through a virtual keyboard. That's not going to make for a very pleasant content creation experience. Some folks have been told Fire will have TTS but I'm skeptical. I hope at least they'll make Kindle 4 Android (I assume Fire reader is based on the same code base) TTS aware, and at least let you purchase and install a TTS engine on Fire if you want one (Amazon App Store sells SVOX, which is pretty good and only $4 per voice).