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Originally Posted by tomsem
Have no fear. @jhowell looked at the update binary and there are some references to TTS in there. Every Fire tablet ships with this feature (with at least a dozen different languages), so why not Kindles as well (as in olden days)? All current Kindles ship with 8GB storage, which is plenty to accommodate one or several voices.
I cannot imagine very many people bother to listen to Audible on Kindle (I never have: that’s what smartphones are for), and it doesn’t support Immersion Reading, which means I do all of that on non-Amazon devices. Nor have I purchased any Audible content on Kindle. It would not hurt the Audible business at all, but it would sell more Kindles.
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Verrrryyy interesting. It seems like a very niche feature, but who knows? The firmware division has to keep busy doing something
I'm not into audiobooks (I find it hard to concentrate and I lose the thread), but I like to use TTS sometimes to give my eyes a rest, then resume reading seamlessly. The Kindle keyboard was really good for this, with its built in speakers. No fussing with blue tooth or headphones. Only downside was the robotic voice.