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Originally Posted by jaekqubp
My understanding is that several previous Kindle e-ink devices had built-in TTS support, while that feature has been abandoned in the current generation Kindles -- ostensibly, so as to not cannibalize their Audible audiobook sales.
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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
Since they've moved the TTS feature over to the Fire tablets and improved it from the eInk readers it's doubtful they're too worried about hurting Audible (Amazon owns Ivona too).
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Especially since the newer E-Inks don't have any audio
hardware at all, and the older ones supported Audible audiobooks as well as TTS.
TTS support is defined by the publisher, and I am unaware of Amazon doing anything to disadvantage that... aside from removing expensive audio hardware from the specific range of devices that most people did not use for audio.