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@Robertb. No doubt this is a great feature for the blind, but also great for the public in general and that fact should not be excluded. This feature can help children with reading disabilities as well as those children who just are behind in reading. Let us not make TTS a one point argument there are many great reasons to support TTS.
I applaud your company for supporting TTS. While most folks here don't seem too interested in TTS this feature will soon become a must have feature as ebook readers become mainstream.
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Dear ALL:
This is really a good thread. Dale DePriest brings up a great point: putting the menu and other selections made into TTS.
I am going to talk this up at Jinke and try to get this done. I am very, very in tune with the blind and those with bad vision. Our owner has vision problems and Astak is sensitive to problems like this.
I also think that TTS has a long way to go. There are still pauses and gaps and vert little inflection in the machine voice. It is decent and useful... but TTS is in its infancy and can get a lot better.
I used to work with the GPS community. Early GPS units also had problems with speech inflection and pattern and it improved with time. So... Dale's points, as always, are really great. Let me see what Astak can do to bring about a solution. Knowing Dale, as I do, he likely has the solution all worked out anyway.