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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
I just tried the the Alexa-powered TTS. It is indeed far better than it ever was on the old KK. Not perfect — there were a couple of instances of unnatural use of emphasis in the short science essay I listened to — and one major flaw: Alexa went straight from the final sentence of that essay to the next essay in the book with no pause. Had I not known the title of the next essay, I would have assumed the title was a continuation of the previous essay. She needs to learn how to pause between chapters and to differentiate chapter titles from the rest of the text. Overall, however, the flow was much more natural, and the phrasing was, with the minor blips I noted, surprisingly good. I could see using this feature as an alternative way to access a work of fiction.
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Glad you gave it try. Its really not bad at all. Kindle Keyboard was so robotic I couldn't stand it. Alexa has a really pleasing voice. I wish I could use her voice on the Fire tablets. Whatever they did for Alexa seems a touch more advanced then the Kindle fire Ivona voices. But really, they are not bad either. I used UK Amy awhile but they recently updated all the voices so they sound a touch better. Joey is good to for the men voices.