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Old 05-20-2022, 03:12 PM   #16
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Which download for Calibre 3.48 on XP?
I know that the attachment zip at the end of post #2 works on calibre v3.48 (32-bit or 64-bit) on Win10 but I've never tested on WinXP because I don't have a PC that old. Probably faster to try it than to speculate. You'd need to install manually via
Prefs > Plugins > Load plug-in from file

2 other things:
  • The older plugin version (v0.4.1) on calibre 3.48 32-bit will restrict you to a single Voice, probably whatever Windows thinks is the current default.
  • I'm not sure that WinXP's built-in Voices would be good enough for lengthy listening.
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Windows XP and Kindle DXG are about similar voice quality. OK if you are desperate and tey both sound very American of a more neutral kind.

I'll look at the Linux standard solutions.

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Amazon removed their text-to-speech function on their e-ink devices. The reasons seems to be authors pushing back because of audiobooks sales.
Yet Amazon could/can enable or disable TTS on a per book sale. Maybe they simply lost interest till accessibility issues raised.
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I was thinking of investigating using PC to turn epubs into mp3s.
Daisy Toby (Windows freeware). Also check out aeneas.
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Fire tablets do TTS in multiple languages and multiple voices. Also of course, you can get an Echo for even less, and it will TTS most Kindle books.
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