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Old 11-17-2014, 01:06 PM   #1
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having tried ereaders and tablets for reading. i have found i come back to kindle. ive tried

ezreader which didnt work and was hoping it would it didnt work due to text to speach being to painfully slow.

eamail lots of companys to ask if there ereaders had tts

but found limited info about sutible ereaders for disabled users. and had no reference list of manufactures who did make ereaders that speak

yes i tried out the kindle love the voice but find it too heavy

so what alterative are there

so far
e ink
kindle dx
kindle 2
kindle 3
kindle touch
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tablet

kindle fire 2nd gen.


this is what i found please quto and add hope to help someone in the same position as its hard to find equipment that doesnt cost an arm or a leg!
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Old 11-18-2014, 09:10 AM   #2
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Kindle Fire 6 has TTS and lots of voices to choose from. Kindle Fire 6 is $99 for 8GB so it's really cheap.

Kindle Fire HD 6, 7, HDX all have the same TSS and same voices.

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These 4 Amazon Kindle Fires have Screen Reader, featuring “IVONA’s award-winning natural language text-to-speech voice” ::

Kindle Fire HD 7″ Tablet
Kindle Fire HDX 7″ Tablet
Kindle Fire HD 8.9″ Tablet
Kindle Fire HDX 8.9″ Tablet
You can add Kindle Fire HD 6" to the list too. They all use the same software.
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All iPads have very good TTS, as well as audio description of other visual elements on the screen. iPads can be used "out of the box" by blind users.
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Old 11-18-2014, 01:07 PM   #4
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Sad thing [for me] about the Fire is no real battery life.
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Sad thing [for me] about the Fire is no real battery life.
I get about 9 hours out of mine or In stand by for at least a week before hitting 30% I can't imagine needing more battery than that.
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the problem ive found with voice over is if turnec on then the gestures change
from 1 finger swipe to 3 . i cant do 3

i also find that the voice is annoying

there a few other bit i hate about voice over. which only reads my kindle books if turned of which of couse stops me operating my my phone and then i cant turn it off
as i cant do the new swipe gestures.

to be honest its not the kindle app reading it
its voice over which then screws my phone up which really annoys me

but thanks for info
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Old 11-18-2014, 06:15 PM   #8
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I read more than 8-9 hours a day.
i find i read or listen to more on my kindle then i read books on my ipad

must be a screen issue .
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Since "disabled" doesn't say too much, I assume you're talking about "visually impaired" people, because of the TTS.

Well, there are better alternatives, and apparently a much greater diversity, namely AudioBooks. That's first.

Secondly, TTS might work with English. But when coming to other languages, it simply is so funny, that an entire episode of Gear was dedicated to Navigation systems and their funny pronunciation.
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The same for me and it is for this reason that the Fire will never replace my PW2 for reading. It just does not have the staying power for my extensive reading, not to mention all the other things the Fire can do over the PW2.
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Since "disabled" doesn't say too much, I assume you're talking about "visually impaired" people, because of the TTS.
Not necessarily. Could be an inability to turn the pages.
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Not necessarily. Could be an inability to turn the pages.
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For me its both. Touch screens make my fingers hurt from the arthritis & I have vision problems. There are times on my K3 I go from reading to listening & back again.
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When two people have various interpretations of a statement, that statement is unclear.
When two people have various interpretations of a statement, that people are unclear.

So, as your statement has two interpretations (so far), it is unclear. (or am I?)
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tts isnt just good for people visual impaired,

its also great for other types of disabilities too.
i wasnt just basing the thread on people with visual impaired vison when i started it.

thanks for the feedback, since equipment cost an arm and a leg if ur disabled
i was hoping that this thread would show you dont need to pay thousefnds for all equipment.
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