Thread: Text to Speech Facility
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Old 06-12-2010, 03:44 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by haino View Post
Can anyone offer advice on the text-to-speech facility. In particular I would like to know
  1. Apart from Amazon Kindle do any of the other "more common" readers offer the text-to-speech facility. I have had a look at the Ebook Reader Matrix but the ones showing this facility are not readily available in the UK.
  2. Does the text-to-speech facility work well or does the output sound like a strangulated computer generated voice.
  3. Finally does the text-to-speech drain the reader battery quickly.

Thanks. I look forward to your reply
Any of the Hanlin V5 clones (BeBook Mini, Astak Pocket Pro, etc) offer it. Naturally it sounds like a computer generated voice; it is a computer generated voice. I certainly wouldn't want to listen to it for very long; it's certainly not a substitute for an audiobook.
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