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Originally Posted by Ridcully
There's still text to speech via bluetooth as an accessibility option for blind users but you have to put up with the rest of the blind user interface
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A generic USB Audio and USB2Go adaptor (together under £20 inc shipping) and then downloading two firmwares from Amazon adds BT style speech interface for the Blind to a PW3.
It seems terribly badly designed. It's also pretty poor to use for listening to books like you can on the Kindle Keyboard or DXG (B008 and B009 or similar). I've all three so can compare.
The Text to Speech Accessibility free on Windows XP and later or current Linux works better and the actual reading is better.
I hear little improvement on the Text to Speech on the Kindle Keyboard on the packs added to the PW3, and I had DOS software as good in intonation and style in 1980s. It's poor on context.
I do use it to check how it pronounces made up names in stories. That doesn't just apply to SF&F. Dickens and other older writers made up names.