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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
I use it quite a lot. Every night, when I put my daughter to bed, I start up her Kindle Touch on TTS. Right now, she wants the Kindle reading the novelization of The Empire Strikes Back every night, and has for weeks. Before that, she had the Kindle read her the Miss Peregrine series. I use TTS on my Kindle Keyboard when I'm at my desk or in my car and don't feel like listening to a podcast.
My wife doesn't like TTS at all. I think it does take a lot of getting used to, like understanding someone who speaks with a heavy accent. At first, I often had a hard time understanding it, but the more I listened to it, the easier it became. I got to the point where I could listen to it at maximum speed. After a while, maximum speed doesn't even seem that fast, because as you get adapted to it, you're brain doesn't have to work as hard to understand it. For my daughter, that voice is like an old friend at bedtime. She prefers it at normal speed or even slow speed, which makes sense if it's reading to you at bedtime.
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That's awesome, but why do I have this vision of the not-too-distant-future of children wanting their robots to tuck them in and read them a bedtime story?
