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Originally Posted by DaleDe
I suspect audible is not there although it would be nice if it was. I do think TTS is there as this is a feature needed by accessibility tool VoiceView. |
The business case for VoiceView is huge: they can now promote Kindle for government contracts, institutional and educational. Adding TTS and Audible support might sell a few hundred additional Kindles.
I think TTS is in reach now (if enough people ask for it), but as a heavy Audible user, a Kindle is the last device I would want to use for listening to Audiobooks. It would be fun if they could enable 'immersion reading' by streaming the audio, however, so you would not need to store huge audio files.
I will be curious to learn if TTS people will find VoiceView workable for them (once one has gone to the trouble of connecting audio adapter and/or Bluetooth audio output device).
Note that when it is enabled, you lose access to a number of features, and enabling and disabling it requires connecting and disconnecting the audio adapter (or I assume with this Kindle, connecting and disconnecting Bluetooth device).
I'll be curious if the Bluetooth supports volume and playback controls on the headset. Hope so. It would also be nice if they include keyboard profile so you could use an external keyboard to enter text and/or use arrow buttons to turn pages (with or without VoiceView enabled).