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Originally Posted by haino
Can anyone offer advice on the text-to-speech facility. In particular I would like to know - 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.
- Does the text-to-speech facility work well or does the output sound like a strangulated computer generated voice.
- Finally does the text-to-speech drain the reader battery quickly.
Thanks. I look forward to your reply |
1) in addition to all the models already mentioned the only other one is the iPad. You can also use MSReader on a PC.
2) The sound is not as good as a well produced audio book, with most TTS the computerized sound is still there. Some TTS are better than others for instance the Kindle TTS is actually quite good, and much better than the PC. The only thing that does annoy me is the misspronounciation of heteronyms and the occasional skip because the processor cannot keep up (the latter part is a kindle issue)
3) On my kindle if does drain the battery faster. The difference cuts the time between charge from two weeks to one week. That's about 15hrs of straight play time before a charge is needed.
I use it all the time especially between commutes and working out. That's an additional 15hrs of reading I could not have done otherwise.