Thread: Accessories Text to speech
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Old 05-20-2022, 08:51 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by hleo12 View Post
Amazon removed their text-to-speech function on their e-ink devices. The reasons seems to be authors pushing back because of audiobooks sales.

There is kinda a workaround tho. Recent Kindles have VoiceView under the Accessibility function. It functions like text-to-speech, but for the whole Kindle. It's sort of a bit tricky to navigate. I've tried it just now and it works well enough. Once you have to function turned on, once you open a book it will automatically read it aloud. Surprisingly, it doesn't sound as robotic as I'd expected.

On a sidenote, it would be awesome if we could choose between a male and female voice.
Thanks for replying .nearly wasted money thinking it was still available. I just wanted to verify from other kindle users
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