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Originally Posted by Carnyx
Thanks for the reply Katie,
That's interesting - a lot of people seem to be against touchscreen which I'm surprised at. I thought it would be better for arthritic users, but apparently not always.
Please could you elaborate on "ability to read the book" - is this what text-to-speech does? For some reason I'd thought text-to-speech just worked on menus and basic operations, not actually reading out the book itself. If so, doesn't it sound a bit weird reading a book, without the right intonation etc? Still impressive though.
Thanks,
David.
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When people say text-to-speech, what they mean is that the device will read the book aloud through the headset jack. This is actually an interesting idea, as most readers that have text-to-speech will turn the pages automatically, so no touching is required. You should be aware that the speech is an electronic computer voice, so you're not going to get the inflections and pronunciations that a human would give it. If she reads at about the same speed as the text to speech, she wouldn't have to listen to the voice to have the pages turn automatically.
I'm not aware of any e-ink readers that are voice activated. All of them require touching buttons or screen to navigate menus and do other basic operations.