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Originally Posted by tomsem
Kindle has never had Alexa on it.
All 7th generation and later Kindles have VoiceView screen reader (English only). That will work with any book that supports screen reader, including send-to-kindle books (but not PDFs, I think).
Alexa (the app) will read out books and play audiobooks purchased from Amazon that enable text to speech. It's available on Echo and Fire devices and from Google and Apple app stores. Fire also has text to speech (now called Assistive Voice).
Neither Nook or Kobo have a screen reader or text to speech.
If that's what you are looking for I would recommend a PocketBook device.
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Yes, you understand what I am looking for.
To clarify my original post: I am talking about the Alexa
app accessibility feature. Alexa apps on smartphones, Android tablets and the Alexa smart assistant echo devices have the ability to read aloud your Kindle and Audible books.
However, this Accessibility Read Aloud feature is
ONLY available for eBooks purchased from Amazon or library eBooks borrowed and sent through from OverDrive.
Why Alexa app instead of just using VoiceView on a Kindle device? The Kindle devices only provide VoiceView in American English.
It's one of the reasons I am moving to PocketBook. I am using Google Play Books a lot for this, but whenever my devices lose Wi-Fi connection, the audio narration skips words and it is difficult to keep pace with the text on the screen when this happens.
It's unfortunate that PocketBook doesn't have voices for all the languages I would like, but it has the major ones for most of our eBooks. For the remainder, we will just have to keep using Google Play Books.