Thread: Kindle offers remote kill switch for text-to-speech function?
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Old 05-15-2009, 05:00 AM   #25
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Originally Posted by Alisa View Post
The technology will improve. I think the Author's Guild decided it was best to move to protect these rights now because some day TTS technology could be a real competitor for a licensed audio book. I can see their point but I don't like it. As for using a speech decoder on a PC, would you be able to that with a DRMed book without removing the DRM? If you keep within Amazon's ToS, you wouldn't be able to read a Kindle book on your PC at all.


I would think it highly unlikely that TTS could become a real competitor for the audio alternative - at least in our lifetimes, and those of our bairns ....
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