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Originally Posted by Tarana
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.  |
I agree with all that.
I like to use drive time for learning. I make a tape of pertinent points or numbers, when studying a process or a needed language and play it back while driving or even flying (resting my eyes). Now days it can be a digital recording. Granted Alexa may or may not be utilized all the time, but the process is similar and the voice only needs to be understood whether it is an actor's, or a machine voice or my own.