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Old 08-11-2022, 05:58 PM   #21
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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?
Yes, it first appeared in firmware version 5.13.1. This is the first report of the feature being active that I know of.

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I took a look at the new firmware to see if I could find any undocumented features. Here are some possibilities. No guarantees!
  • Continuing work on the Kindle Curator, including the book cover as screensaver feature.
  • Text-to-Speech reading separate from the VoiceView screen reader.
  • Japanese Hiragana keyboard.
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I don't know about voices, but the languages appear to be de, en_GB, en_US, es, fr, it, ja, nl, pt, ru, sq, and zh.

Added: I don't know if these are actual reading languages or related to device customization.
It is probably controlled from Amazon's servers. It may be possible to enable it on a jailbroken device.
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