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Old 08-17-2022, 12:12 PM   #32
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Originally Posted by tomsem View Post
Presumably you would need voice data files for Chinese on the Kindle, as well. For Kindles sold in US, only English voice data files are available.
I believe that you are likely to be correct. I took a brief look at parts of the Kindle firmware related to TTS and there appear to be several restrictions built into the code. The device must be registered to a specific marketplace, the book language must be Chinese, and it must come from a specific set of whitelisted publishers. (There may be more restrictions. That was as far as I looked )

These could all be worked around on a jailbroken device by patching jar files but it would take a fair amount of work.
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