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Originally Posted by gabby98
Oh, OK....i had heard much worse horror stories about having to email the book to a special kindle email and waiting for their system to convert and download or deny the conversion etc.
we may have to take a look at that.
Does anyone know if kindle text to speech is only for some books or for any book?
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Emailing the book is only if you want to store it in the Amazon cloud and see it under archived items, and to synchronize bookmarks and notes across multiple devices. However, Manually putting the book on your Kindle drive through the computer works just fine too, but you won't have it on your other devices as well -- unless you put it on via USB. It is a nice special feature but you can read without it.
In this case, it shouldn't be necessary.
Text-to speech is available for any Kindle that has audio capability. This includes the Kindle
Touch,
Keyboard,
DX, and Kindle
1st and 2nd Generation. The
Paperwhite and Kindle
4th and
5th Generation do NOT have audio capability.
I was going to say there is a Kindle 1st Generation being sold in good condition on Amazon for only $40 -- which I think is the cheapest you are likely to get a kindle -- but just realized, the 1st gen Kindle has audioBOOKS, and thus an audio jack but no text-to-speech (one would think all that requires is a software update, but no, Amazon *can't* fix that)
The Kindle 2nd generation does have text-to-speech though, and
on ebay is $45. Or try this
Kindle Touch for $50.
The Touch is vastly better of course, and only $5 more.
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Originally Posted by BookCat
According to Amazon, the Kindle Touch doesn't have audio. Maybe the first models did, but they don't anymore. Are you sure you have a K Touch Daffy?
EDIT: I asked the Kindle bods. Seems I'm wrong, sorry. This means that the Kindle Touch looks like a viable option. Not too pricey, either.
On the Amazon site, they've got a blank space in the audio capability. Odd. Obviously a website quirk.
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On the
Amazon Kindle product page:
Audio: 3.5 mm stereo audio jack, rear mounted speakers
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Originally Posted by ApK
TTS can be disabled on individual titles at the publisher's request.
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Only the ones bought from Amazon, not the sideloaded books, and anyway, Apprentice Alf has a plugin for that...