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Originally Posted by HarryT
Like recent Kindle models, it has "Voice View", which is TTS (in fact it's complete device operation via voice, for the blind).
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Voice view is, as you say, designed for the blind and really awkward for the sighted to use. I bought the dongle and used voice view twice and now the dongle is in a drawer somewhere.
Sadly, TTS is probably gone for good b/c it isn't lucrative for Amazon. Voice view is just there to satisfy some kind of legal requirement, perhaps. Ironically, the Amazon-bought Ivona's UK Amy voice is my favorite TTS voice, quirks and all. (Naturally, Voice view doesn't use that voice.) Even the newer TTS systems that use fancy deep learning don't sound as natural or pleasing to me, at least not yet.