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Originally Posted by rcentros
If you mean like the old TTS in the Kindle Keyboard and Touch, no I don't think so. The Kindle Basic uses VoiceView, but that's for more than just reading, it's also a way to navigate around in the Kindle 2013 -- which is kind of "clunky" if you don't really need it (if you're not visually impaired). On the other hand, it appears that VoiceView will read books that are not TTS enabled. When trying out VoiceView I had a book that wasn't TTS enabled (wouldn't read on my Touch), but VoiceView was able to read it. To be honest, the only time I "use" this feature is when I'm trying it out. So I'm not as up on it as I should be.
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A lot of the new reader apps support Text-To-Speech as long as you have the hardware/software for sound and your device can install the apps (helps if it is rootable).
IVONA is a great app that is compatible with anything past Android 1.6. It provides your device with a better voice than say picoTTS, which sounds really robotic. It sounds pretty realistic and is definitely not intolerable to listen to. It sounds 95% human, I would say and has decent expression of punctuation. You will be able to install it on anything that has google play access or can sideload applications. A rooted device is usually able to do this.
I study spanish and greek and it helps me to be able to read along with the text and hear the words vocalized. It really speeds up my language learning. IVONA has english and spanish, but no greek. But they have a lot of other languages. If you can get ahold of an apk and the obb files, it will totally run.