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Originally Posted by Barty
That's for the new voice that sounds a lot better than the Hawkings voice. But who knows, maybe Ivona does not need that much RAM either and Amazon just does not want to support old devices.
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Or more likely, amazon does not want to pay TTS LICENSING FEES for old devices...
However, there are a number of open source TTS engines, and even Google TTS no longer requires "high quality" voices. Here is an open source TTS engine:
http://espeak.sourceforge.net/index.html
And here is a sample audio file created by that free TTS engine:
http://espeak.sourceforge.net/samples/raven.ogg
It has a linux and a windows version -- perhaps it could run on older kindles that do not already have TTS buried in their menu system.
And there are even more open source TTS choices on github (some of which I published links to in the past).
Considering that there are software-only TTS systems that work just fine on Arduinos, I think we could get something doing TTS, even on a "lowly" K1 (which has a built-in MP3 player). So If you want "TTS" on a K1, load the audiobook MP3 on it, start the player, and open the book to follow along, eh?
