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tomsem · 06-30-2017, 04:22 PM

You could do worse than a $50 Fire tablet for this. It has excellent TTS (in about 2 dozen languages), translation dictionaries for about ten languages, ad hoc translation (highlight a phrase or paragraph and it will do Bing translate). And Audible of course.

Kindles have a feature called 'Vocabulary Builder' which keeps track of dictionary lookups and lets you 'practice' recall. Of course no TTS or Audible. It includes more translation dictionaries as well (but not really an issue if you are only interested in French). Too bad has not added VB feature to their mobile apps to date.

On iOS, you have Speak Screen feature which works with some reading apps (iBooks and Kindle at least), but TTS is not as usual (Bookari is only one I know of). Android has several reading apps with TTS. Kindle apps have Bing Translate (when online).

06-30-2017, 04:22 PM	#2
tomsem Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,955 Karma: 27060153 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: USA Device: iPhone 15PM, Kindle Scribe, iPad mini 6, PocketBook InkPad Color 3	You could do worse than a $50 Fire tablet for this. It has excellent TTS (in about 2 dozen languages), translation dictionaries for about ten languages, ad hoc translation (highlight a phrase or paragraph and it will do Bing translate). And Audible of course. Kindles have a feature called 'Vocabulary Builder' which keeps track of dictionary lookups and lets you 'practice' recall. Of course no TTS or Audible. It includes more translation dictionaries as well (but not really an issue if you are only interested in French). Too bad has not added VB feature to their mobile apps to date. On iOS, you have Speak Screen feature which works with some reading apps (iBooks and Kindle at least), but TTS is not as usual (Bookari is only one I know of). Android has several reading apps with TTS. Kindle apps have Bing Translate (when online).