Thread: Kindle USB Audio Adapter
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Old 05-21-2016, 03:29 PM   #117
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I did not install the voice update yet.

I just plugged in my cheap chinese $0.99USD (free shipping) USB sound dongle, with heaphones already attached, and my kindle immediately started talking to me about "no voice files detected" and such.
Maybe they've taken a page from Apple and include a low quality voice and offer high quality voices as optional downloads. Or the low quality voice was included as a fallback voice in case the user accidentally deletes the downloaded TTS files.

Theoretically this lower quality tts voice would also require less RAM and should also work on Kindles with less memory such as my PW2. (Of course, it's also possible that they only included a TTS generated audio file of that specific error message.)

Either way, I'm curious what the sound quality is like.

If it's not too much of a hassle, could you please record the error message that you hear when you attach your usb audio adapter?
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