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Originally Posted by Desertway
Much like the Kindle itself, the Alexa settings are all over the place. In the app, I click on Devices on the bottom of the screen, then Echo & Alexa on the top, then my Echo Dot. On the top right is a gear icon, and one of the options on that list is "Alexa's Voice". It is there for my Old 2nd Gen dot as well as my newer ones. I'm surprised that it isn't even there for the Fire TV.
The setting for the Alexa Assistive Reader is under More (bottom menu) / Settings/ Accessability / Kindle Assistive Reader. But you can only turn it on and off.
(You probably already knew all of that.)
P.S. I see you have Apple devices as well. Do you ever use Spoken Content in the Kindle app on those? If you do, how is it? I've heard that the most recent Siri voices are pretty good.
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I think I have Echo Dot 2nd generation in storage. I may have to recommission it just to be able to experiment with other Alexa voices. But I think there's no remote control ability with that? It's been awhile since I used it.
I do use Speak Screen with the Kindle app. It is simple to select the desired voice, and it switches language automatically to match the book. Kindle's support for it (and for Accessibility features more generally) is much better than most reading apps, but it does not do phrase highlighting like it ideally would (Apple Books and News apps do this). The main issue for me is the inability to use a headset or keyboard control to pause and resume playback, you have to touch the screen or use Voice Control (and even with VC I think there is no simple command to 'stop reading'). It's not clear why Apple does not wire it up to enable this.
But that is the case with Kindle TTS as well: you must use the on screen play/pause button, which requires a couple of taps to get to. VoiceView also does not work with headset controls (on Fire and Kindle). You would think that accessibility features would be more flexible.
Using Alexa on Fire to play stuff does work with headset controls and the media keyboard keys. It is just annoying to be restricted to a single voice.