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That's hillarious and annoying at the same time.
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I love Ivona Amy (British) voice. You can get Ivona on any android device, btw, not just the kindle fire.
I really hate that despite owning Ivona, Amazon will never put it on their eink kindle. I'm amazed at its ability to pronounce some pretty exotic words and names that can't possibly be in any dictionary and yet can't figure out that "No. I don't think so" is not "number, I don't think so." ![]() |
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^ I know, I have Ivona on my phone, but I wanted to be able to use Whispersync, so I can switch between my eink readers and TTS. I am frankly a bit disappointed in the HD6' size and weight. For a 6 inch screened device, I was expecting something reasonably small and thin, and this it is not. It's like a brick.
But, it serves the purpose I bought it for, even though I want to throw it against the wall when I look at it in all its ugly glory. If Amazon opened up TTS on Android phones, that would really solve my problem, and if they could add Ivona to eink kindles, that would rock. Of course, all this will never happen, and so the 6 incher it is. I am considerng returning it for the 8 GB one, since I don't see myself using it for anything except TTS. I have other tablets and phones for all the other stuff, and $20 would get me another three ebooks. Amazon should really sell an iPhone touch type device as well. |
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^^^ well, they do have a Fire phone, which apparently ten people bought. If you mean like an iPod touch, I guess that's what the 6" fire is.
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To me KK TTS quality is very poor compared to my Fire HD 6 tab. |
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![]() Have you seen the reviews? The Fire Phone has a 2 (TWO!!) star rating, probably the lowest on any of Amazon's products, ever. I meant something as small as the iPod Touch. |
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I have it on a nook hd+. I don't know why it wouldn't be on android phones. In fact, the product page even says designed for phones. |
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Clarifying... I really wish the Kindle app supported TTS! I've even made the suggestion to Amazon over the phone, in chat, on the Android app page.
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For Android devices, you might want to try the CereProc voices:
https://www.cereproc.com/products/voices You can get them on Google Play. I've got them on my Nook HD/HD+. |
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So this suggestion is not really helping much ![]() Because TTS in not available in the Kindle app, I had to spend money on the bulky Fire HD6. |
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I realize that. But not everyone who reads a thread has the particular device under question (see: me) and just reads it out of curiosity, and since the thread digressed a bit to good/bad sounding voices, I figured that I'd just mention the CereProc voices, since they sound pretty good too.
I've come across a lot of useful information by perusing threads that don't pertain to any devices I happen to own as a result of their topic digressions, so I'm just paying it forward a bit to someone who might have both Kindle and other Android devices. ![]() |
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^ Xanthe, gotcha!
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