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Old 03-07-2010, 02:50 PM   #10
lanceman
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Originally Posted by Robertb View Post
Dear Lanceman:

TTS on eBook Readers is NOT close to that. Soon, likely, but nowhere near that at present. TTS is clear enough to be understandable and I love it on a long plane trip... but on a scale of 1-10 it is barely a 6. Certainly a blessing... but not what I would call much more than adequate. The problem is not background noise though.. the problem is more a very much machine voice. I am trying to be honest here. Unlike other manufacturers that never seem to tell the bad with the good... I think there are things that I would like to see improved. This cannot be improved with a firmware upgrade; but new models will hopefully have more improvement of a nice feature.
I think you have answered my question and I appreciate your honesty. That's exactly how I thought about the TTS quality on PP. Hopefully, you will address it in the future models. IMHO, if you really make it right, I believe it will be a good selling point to business people. It will be even better if you also take care of the existing customers by addressing it at the firmware level

Do you have the release schedule (Just ballpark) of the new models?
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