[emellaich]

I'm one of the few that use and appreciate text-to-speech, and coming from the K3, I have to say that some decisions were made that cause real issues for the way that I use the feature on the Touch.

When you are listening to a book on the KT it turns off the screen after a minute or so, but keeps on reading the text. I assume this was a move to reduce battery life.

However, without the screen on there is no way to interact with the TTS controls. In the K3, I had three choices when the I was listening to a book. I could use the volume button to raise or lower volume, I could hit the spacebar to pause the text, or I could hit shift-Aa to shut off text to speech.

With the Touch, I have to turn it back on, select the menu to bring up the touch controls, and then perform the actions. The problem is that there are times when I need to quickly silence the system and there is no way to do that.

Picture this: you are driving along listening to your book. You pull up to the curb to pick up your kid and the book is in the middle of a violent fight, a murder scene, or a passionate love scene. You can't quickly turn it off.

It's a special problem because turning it back on is very sluggish. I guess the next step is to try a reset as suggested elsewhere to see if that speeds things up.