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This is great news awesome!
I personally fine text-to-speech (TSS) an excellent feature and found it a crime to society that the authors guild staunchly opposed this right.
This technology not only helps the disabled, but also assist in teaching children who are having a difficult time learning how to read... even as bad as the synthesized voice is it still pronounced the words accurately--well mostly.
I also use it for leisure and play the TTS when I want to continue reading my book but cannot for instance when I'm driving, working out, etc...
The author's greed blinds them form the truth. TSS will never equal audio books and their audio sales will go up as a result of folks wishing to listen to a professional production. Also I actually consume more books because of this feature.
Amazon has provided a great vehicle for us as consumers to pressure the AG to enable TSS. By allowing the author's to chose whether they want to enable TTS or not the consumer has the right to purchase the authors work based on that feature.
Personally I would like to see a boycott of authors who chose to disable the TSS.
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