Thread: Epson and 400MHz with ADE and TTS:$229
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Old 07-31-2009, 09:35 AM   #37
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Originally Posted by John F View Post
I'm curious about the TTS. How usable is it with DRMed content? Do most DRMed ebooks allow TTS?
It isn't available for ePub or PDF (because they are using mobile Adobe Digital Editions), not even if they are DRM-free. So for DRMed content, you would need to a) strip the DRM, b) use Calibre to convert to MOBI or FB2.

In my experience, most DRMed ebooks have all additional "permissions" disabled (although some PDFs allow limited copying and printing). It appears that Adobe ePub does have a read aloud metadata field, see for example Prince of Fire by Daniel Silva at Books on Board. This indicates that Read Aloud isn't available for Adobe PDFs, although Adobe Reader (not Adobe Digital Editions) does have a read aloud option for DRM-free PDFs. So far as I know, no version of ADE has read aloud capability
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