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This is pretty fascinating. IIRC @jhowell found some references to Text to Speech in one of the updates awhile back. Why they would choose to enable it in China, of all places?
And generally speaking, I would expect that removing DRM removes TTS restrictions, and it should work with anything side-loaded. At least that's how it works on Fire. So it is strange that in this case it appears to be white-listed only for certain ASIN's.
It gives credence to the idea that Amazon is reluctant to undercut their Audible business by enabling TTS on Kindles in the US, even with these rather extreme restrictions.
Well, this is one reason I purchased a PocketBook Era. It has a very good TTS implementation and you can use either bluetooth or onboard speaker. It highlights words as they are read, and it responds to play/pause/volume controls which the BT audio device may have.
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