Thread: Firmware Update Kindle 2.0.3 officially disables TTS
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Old 08-03-2009, 09:47 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by fugazied View Post
I'm pretty sure the publishers tell Amazon to jump and Amazon says "How high?"

I think it's ludicrous that publishers think TTS is a threat to Audiobooks or Movies or other adaptions of the original book. Maybe in 5 years when the voice doesn't sound like a robot, but as for now I'd rather listen to an audiobook read by Matt Damon or Morgan Freeman (which I usually buy from audible).
As I recall it was the Authors Guild who put the pressure on both the Publishers and Amazon.
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