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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
The K2 and K3 had TTS and the battery life was just fine. I know folks who used TTS at the gym because it would turn the page on the book for them so they didn't have to take their hand off whatever piece of equipment they were using. They set the speed based on their reading pace, truned the volume down, and ran while reading without worry. None of them reported the battery draining all that quickly.
So, let me repeat, that Amazon had TTS and it worked just fine. They did not have TTS for the menu screen and that made it non-compliant and lead to legal challenges when Kindles were given to students in schools during pilot studies.
TTS is viable on an ereader.
It does not kill memory space, the K3 had a ton of memory. I think it might have more memory then the K4 and possibly the PW.
It does not hurt battery life. The K3 worked just fine and there were no complaints about its battery life.
It can be ignored by those of us blessed to not need it.
It can be used in innovative ways for those of us who don't need it but want to use the eliptical or treadmill without any concerns.
It could provide people with disabilities an even less expensive avenue to listen to books because it is 1) less expensive then a tablet 2) ebooks tend to be less expensive then audio books 3) not every book is available as an audio book 4) People who put books on tape for folks with disabilities can be slow in reading the books (textbook reading can really lag behind)
So if it doesn't add anything to what you pay for the device, doesn't take up memory space, doesn't hurt your battery usage why are so many people invested in agreeing with these companies that it is ok to limit what the device can do for peopel with disabilities?
Seriously, the Kindle had TTS, it worked fine, books were limited on it by Publishers which made it less effective. Why does anyone really think that this is an onerous request by anyone?
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I think it I the web browser having to have TTS. This would not be very useful IMO to the blind, on an ereader, but maybe it would be. Still very difficult to use.
The MFGs could probably implement it but make it useful?
Helen
Helen