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Originally Posted by NicholasV
The text to speech is a gimmick at this point, you really cannot use that feature for long. It is just too clumsy and inhuman to be able to stand for long.
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I guess it's all in the 'ear' of the beholder. I use the Kindle TTS quite frequently. I will readily admit that you must be tolerant of both the voice and it's mispronunciations, but I find it to be quite serviceable.
As you noted, some books don't allow tts; however there may be a way around this. I may remember incorrectly, so you should check this out yourself. However, I think that, in the US, there is a specific exemption allowing you to break DRM (copy protection) if you are visually impaired. This would allow you to legally buy a kindle book that doesn't allow TTS, to strip its DRM and to enable its TTS.
It's not that difficult a process. On the web you might search to see what Apprentice Alf has to say about removing DRM. the next step would be to use Calibre to convert it from .mobi to .mobi. This enables TTS. Please note that this process only works because you have removed DRM, and that removing DRM is usually not allowed in the US. The specific exemption you want to search for to insure this is allowed in your case would relate to a US copyright office exemption to allow DRM removal for the visually impaired.