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Originally Posted by GlenBarrington
Do you REALLY want those annoying voices reading to you? I can't believe it would be better than a trained actor!
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Actually, you get used to it pretty fast. In addition, there are many, many books for which there are no audiobooks. The text-to-speech voice has improved considerably since the Kindle Keyboard. One of the very reasons why I got a Kindle basic is because I can use the text-to-speech feature on a bluetooth speaker.
There are a lot of people with poor vision as well as non-native speakers of English who use the text-to-speech option (same voice with the Echo as with the Kindle basic and Fire). Not to mention a lot of folks that listen while doing something else - they would never buy an audiobook because well... why? They have the book already.
