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Originally Posted by Pulp
I cannot really see the point in text2speech on an ebook- reader.
It does make sense if you have a tiny device with a tiny display (or none at all), but why would anyone want to carry around a relatively large device with a great display and then use the device but not the display?  |
TTS just provides a larger potential customer base for the new Kindle.
Imagine being blind, and being able to buy new books fairly soon after their introduction... many books do not come out in braille or audiobooks until well after their original intro. And just as with printed books, you can keep all of your books on one device, easier to handle.
Also, visual readers can now use their Kindles as audiobooks while driving, so you've added a feature to commuters.