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Originally Posted by Katie1
Maybe this is why they discontinued the phone... When I had the 1st Fire 7 HD it had Fantastic Sound. Now I just got the Fire 10" Tablet I cant even find Voice choices on it! Like Amazon is riding on their coat tails! Or Good Name! Seems the more they try to improve these Tablets & ereaders they Worse they get!
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Speakers on tablets tend to be tinny and horrible. I try to use an external Bluetooth speaker when I can.
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Originally Posted by darryl
When I first tried Ivona on my Android phone I was amazed how good it was compared to the previous time I had used TTS (some years ago). Still, I can't ever see TTS achieving the same types of inflections, voices etc as some of the readers of Audiobooks! .
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When it comes to computers, don't say never
Anyway, it isn't necessarily bad thing that TTS does not perform like a person. A human reader invariably brings a little bit of their personality and puts their own interpretation to the text . TTS, on the other hand, is neutral and unvaried. That may work better in some instances.
For things like poetry, you want the human performance. For example, listen to Alan Rickman read My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun (you can find it on Spotify). Marvelous.
Not too sound ghoulish, but I can see some company licensing a celebrity's voice for computerized speech in the future, the way images of past celebs can currently be digitized, manipulated, and used in commercials and films, etc.