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Fmstrat · 01-02-2013, 01:40 PM

Hi all,

Now that the new Kindle Paperwhite no longer supports Text-To-Speech, and Amazon has yet to integrate TTS into the Android app, I've been debating on attempting to reverse engineer the Whispersync protocol so that I can either:

Make a draft reader for Android that does TTS and Whispersync or..
Run a home-grown Whispersync server and then DNS spoof a rooted Kindle and Android phone to use it

Before I start down the road of spoofing certs and MITM'ing I wanted to check in and see if anyone has attempted this before and how it went.

If I get no response that deters me, I'll use this thread as a progress map for where I get.

Thanks,
Ben

*EDIT*
I will likely replace option A with incorporating the code into Cool Reader, an open source reader for Android that already supports TTS: http://sourceforge.net/projects/crengine/ | https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...org.coolreader

01-02-2013, 01:40 PM	#1
Fmstrat G:RSS-Web Creator Posts: 94 Karma: 14 Join Date: Aug 2010 Device: Kindle 3, PW, Nexus 4,10	Reverse Engineering Whispersync Hi all, Now that the new Kindle Paperwhite no longer supports Text-To-Speech, and Amazon has yet to integrate TTS into the Android app, I've been debating on attempting to reverse engineer the Whispersync protocol so that I can either: Make a draft reader for Android that does TTS and Whispersync or.. Run a home-grown Whispersync server and then DNS spoof a rooted Kindle and Android phone to use it Before I start down the road of spoofing certs and MITM'ing I wanted to check in and see if anyone has attempted this before and how it went. If I get no response that deters me, I'll use this thread as a progress map for where I get. Thanks, Ben EDIT I will likely replace option A with incorporating the code into Cool Reader, an open source reader for Android that already supports TTS: http://sourceforge.net/projects/crengine/ \| https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...org.coolreader Last edited by Fmstrat; 01-02-2013 at 02:12 PM.