03-01-2016, 10:22 PM | #31 |
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The Android Kindle app can't do TTS.
Can't help you with the Fire 6 issue as my daughter's roommate is using it since I wasn't. |
03-01-2016, 10:33 PM | #32 |
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I think at least I found where the setting is. Its in settings-keyboard&languages. It says I have 2 options, Amy GB and Salli USA. And I guess one can download more. I'll play with it tomorrow.
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03-01-2016, 10:45 PM | #33 |
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I found 2 options in English M/F and 6 in other English speaking countries! For the Fire 10 once some one on Amazon told me How to get to them. Really Why don't they cover these options in the Guide?
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03-02-2016, 03:58 AM | #34 |
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Echo is quite nice. It's useful if you want to listen to your book while cooking or doing dishes. Not like the performance of a real narrator but good enough to follow the story most of which is in my head anyway.
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03-02-2016, 04:20 AM | #35 |
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I often use TTS on my iPhone in the car, playing it through the car's speakers. Works pretty well.
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03-02-2016, 11:02 AM | #36 |
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I use it quite a lot. Every night, when I put my daughter to bed, I start up her Kindle Touch on TTS. Right now, she wants the Kindle reading the novelization of The Empire Strikes Back every night, and has for weeks. Before that, she had the Kindle read her the Miss Peregrine series. I use TTS on my Kindle Keyboard when I'm at my desk or in my car and don't feel like listening to a podcast.
My wife doesn't like TTS at all. I think it does take a lot of getting used to, like understanding someone who speaks with a heavy accent. At first, I often had a hard time understanding it, but the more I listened to it, the easier it became. I got to the point where I could listen to it at maximum speed. After a while, maximum speed doesn't even seem that fast, because as you get adapted to it, you're brain doesn't have to work as hard to understand it. For my daughter, that voice is like an old friend at bedtime. She prefers it at normal speed or even slow speed, which makes sense if it's reading to you at bedtime. |
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I am convinced, based on how horrible TTS was just a few years ago and how it has improved, about 3 years and you will not be able to tell it is a computer speaking on TTS. 100% agree, whole industry of copyrighted famous voices for TTS. The legal questions of who owns what will be legion though. |
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Default Voice shows languages and default voice for each Download Additional Voices lets you download other voices/languages It's similar on Android. But the Kindle app does not support TTS. You can turn on TalkBack to have it read out text, and the Kindle app has good support for that, but it is not as simple to use. |
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03-02-2016, 01:21 PM | #40 |
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:-) I still put her to bed, the Kindle reading to her just lets me leave the room. She's apparently unable to cover herself with blankets on her own, unless she's just sandbagging it to get me to do it for her. ;-) I recently read her Coraline, now I'm reading her A Princess of Mars. The Kindle only comes on after I'm done reading to her. She makes me stay for a couple minutes after the Kindle starts reading. I used to have to read to her until my throat was dry, her liking the Kindle was really a help. She doesn't seem to prefer audiobooks to TTS, she's become so used to TTS.
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03-03-2016, 10:23 AM | #42 |
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What about TTS in Windows 8.1?
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03-04-2016, 03:59 AM | #43 |
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Methinks TTS has a great future, for it encreases considerably the community of "readers", not only by the blind, but also by people who have little time to read, but who are interested in literature and who find it easier to listen to books in the audible version, f. ex. while driving. Audiobooks are expensive, and the covered segments are quite small. I personally would, besides, have my ebooks (in epub format) available in an audible version, too, just for the times "on the road".
But there are lots problems: The car audio system supports no reading format, of course, and only .wav, mp3 and such. Thus, I would have to convert the epubs. But how can I manipulate the voices, then? How can I make the voice respect the xml:lang attribute in my epubs, if there are language changes in the current of a book? This is difficult in epubs already. It seems to me that it would be justified to create a dedicated "TTS" thread that deals with such technical problems. How do the pals think about this? |
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If you think it would be useful to create a new thread to discuss the technicalities of using TTS in a car (or, indeed, any other aspect of it), please feel free to do so. Last edited by HarryT; 03-04-2016 at 05:12 AM. |
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03-04-2016, 12:46 PM | #45 |
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I see Amazon has added new Echos to their line up, and they already own IMO the best text-to-speech Ivona. I can see them licensing this technology down the road to auto manufacturers and others to bring quality TTS to a variety of areas.
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