I've been testing text to speech, TTS between Amazon echo and my Kindle fire HDX seven. The Amazon echo uses Alexis voice, and the Kindle fire HDX7 uses one of the many IVona voices. I am a big fan of Ivona speech technologies. I know that Amazon owns Ivona now, and I'm sure Echo is using that technology, but Alexa's text to speech sounds much better on the echo.
What I would like to see added to the Amazon echo for both the Kindle books and our audible books, is a sleep timer. A lot of times I listen to my books at night, and often I fall asleep. It would be nice if I could set it to stop at a certain time like a 30 minute timer or 45 minute timer. It will make it easier to find where I left off before I fell asleep the next day.
Has anyone else tested the text-to-speech between Kindle fire and their Echo? What do you think? I think Alexis voice is a little bit more realistic than Ivonas.
Last edited by Synergi; 05-04-2016 at 10:24 AM.
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