I still have not installed the TTS voice pack on my PW3. After all, I am going deaf, not blind. Apparently, deafness is not peaceful silence. I have lawnmowers and whistles and vacuum cleaners and sirens all blaring in my head all the time (making peaceful sleep difficult to acquire). Not that imaginary noise keeping me awake at night matters that much, when I have to get up and pee every half hour. Getting old sucks -- avoid it if you can.
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For the last three years my hearing has grown steadily weaker . . . I can give you some idea of this peculiar deafness when I must tell you that in the theatre I have to get very close to the orchestra to understand the performers, and that from a distance I do not hear the high notes of the instruments and the singers’ voices. . . Sometimes too I hardly hear people who speak softly. The sound I can hear it is true, but not the words. And yet if anyone shouts I can’t bear it.
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Yeah, that, only worse than Beethoven described. I still love my music, but some notes cause pain and others I cannot hear, and I cannot tell the difference between high-end audio gear and dollar store headphones. And the difference between hearing threshold and pain threshold is nonexistant for many frequencies, making listening to music something I like to save for concert-going these days.
USB audio for sound-deficient kindles? Great! But not all that useful for me, other than a technical curiousity.