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Originally Posted by tomsem
The headphone icon indicates a title for which you have an audiobook companion. It has nothing to do with TTS/VoiceView. It means you can download the audiobook and listen to it as well as the ebook (though not simultaneously), and reading position is synchronized between the two formats. VoiceView is not restricted to Kindle Store books.
All 7th generation and later Kindles support VoiceView screen reader for all titles that are not fixed layout. TTS restrictions do not apply. However, it's not as convenient to use as TTS, as it is designed for people with vision impairments (for whom it works very well).
The last Kindle to support TTS was the Kindle Touch (4th gen I think?). Currently, the only devices that actually support TTS for Kindle books are the Fire tablets.
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You see that is where I am confused, because it is clearly working on my device as I described it in my post. You can see that I do not have the screenreader turned on and yet it is playing text-to-speech versions of the book when I hit that headphone icon.
As I said in my initial post I think it must be a difference of the Chinese market.