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Old 11-13-2012, 01:28 PM   #16
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I've tried it. I wouldn't say it's a bad feature, but usually I'll go for one or the other, not both.
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Old 11-13-2012, 08:08 PM   #17
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Cool I grab the 27 Clasic give aways a few weeks ago LOL So I give it a try!

I cant seem to get the ebook & audiobook to sinc?????

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Old 11-13-2012, 09:41 PM   #18
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Cool text-to-speech

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Experience Immersion Reading

"With Immersion Reading, Kindle Fire HD can now synchronize Kindle text with companion Audible audiobooks with real-time highlighting to create a more immersive reading experience, as well as deepen learning and comprehension. Almost 15,000 Kindle books and 15,000 companion Audible audiobooks across a wide array of genres are available."

It's pretty cool, it's text-to-speech only with professional narration.
I cannot get plain-vanilla-text-to-speech to work on my Fire Gen 2!!

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OOO OK! Yep it now working ME!




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Old 11-13-2012, 10:28 PM   #20
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I cannot get plain-vanilla-text-to-speech to work on my Fire Gen 2!!

Did you go into the text settings and turn on text to speech and does the ebook you are reading have text to speech enabled?
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Did you go into the text settings and turn on text to speech and does the ebook you are reading have text to speech enabled?
Yes I did, and they are non-DRM protected mobi files that do text-to-speech just fine on my eink Kindles.

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