I have TTS on my Kindle, but only on kindle store books, I want it to work on books I load from my PC. Anyone how to make this work?
I can't find much information on the Kindle text to speech ability, but I have read about some people going in to the accessibility options and getting TTS functionality from there.. But that's not the case on my Kindle.
My Kindle has been able to play TTS from any book purchased from the store (including kindle unlimited). Perhaps because my Kindle is purchased in China with a Chinese account, and perhaps in China they're less precious about audiobooks.
Most of the books allow TTS, except for the Harry Potter books. (There's a Chinese app which has huge numbers of audiobooks for a small subscription, but no Harry Potter. So the rights owners are vigilant on that...)
Anyhow, you can see on compatible books there's a headphone icon
When you hit the icon and press play it will try to connect to your bluetooth device.
While reading it will underline the current sentence.
The TTS actually sounds really good.
As you can see the voiceview screen reader is not turned on.
Anyhow, I haven't been able to figure out how to get side-loaded books to show that headphone icon. I tried different formats in Calibre (mobi, azw3, kfx...) I've tried a java MobiMetaEditor I saw suggested in a different thread to enable TTS, but it didn't work.
Anyone know where to look to figure out the answer?