Text to Speach?

[citac]

So I was pleasantly surprised this morning when I received my Pocketbook IQ, a lot earlier than I expected it. I installed a couple of e-reading apps, downloaded a comic book app from the zipped collection at http://www.the-ebook-reader.com, and a couple of document editing apps which I intend to test thoroughly during classes at my uni. I have documents To Go, Office Suite and QuickOffice, which I like the best so far. Most of my books and fics are epubs and txt files, though I have many html and lit files so I need to see which app is best for those - or at least html. Which app reads the largest number of formats??

But now I am mostly interested in finding out how to use text to speech. I couldn't find it anywhere. I thought I might get that option when pressing the menu button while I had a book open, but no go. Am I supposed to install an app? If so, which one? Or is this supposed to be available with the new firmware? I'd appreciate finding out, as I like the idea of listening to a book while traveling; my motion sickness is too severe to try reading on the bus.

[speedtouch]

As far as I know, text to speech is not working yet. The Pocketbook USA site says that feature is coming soon. I suppose it'll be in a firmware update in the future.

[twoflower]

On my 902 it is working fine (for English at least).

[speedtouch]

Originally Posted by twoflower

On my 902 it is working fine (for English at least).

Citac was specifically asking about the IQ.

[citac]

Originally Posted by speedtouch

As far as I know, text to speech is not working yet. The Pocketbook USA site says that feature is coming soon. I suppose it'll be in a firmware update in the future.

That's what I thought might be true. I think the new firmware is not that far away, and I'm looking forward to checking it out.

[citac]

Originally Posted by twoflower

On my 902 it is working fine (for English at least).

Yes, like Speedtouch said, I was asking about the IQ model. But I'd appreciate if you could tell us something about TTS - how it works, how good it is, and such.

[BrightSoul]

Originally Posted by citac

Yes, like Speedtouch said, I was asking about the IQ model. But I'd appreciate if you could tell us something about TTS - how it works, how good it is, and such.

Here we go, straight from the PB 902:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo...eat=directlink

sound pretty good to me, even though the very first part is hylarious
Two minor issues:
- I'd like it better if brackets and hyphens weren't pronounced;
- It's NOT making a pause between pages.

Also, a sample from the italian voice, in case anyone is interested.
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo...eat=directlink

[Sil_liS]

Originally Posted by BrightSoul

sound pretty good to me, even though the very first part is hylarious
Two minor issues:
- I'd like it better if brackets and hyphens weren't pronounced;
- It's NOT making a pause between pages.

Maybe every page should end with a "," since it always pauses after one. Also the fact that it reads the () sounds kind of strange.

Can the text-to-speech function be tweaked?

[citac]

Ugh, I remember it sounding better on one of the videos posted after that trade show whose name escapes me right now.

[numberman]

Any one has any idea when IQ model will have Text to speech. It has all the features I wanted, expect TTS. So I am waiting for it to come out before I actually place an order for one.


JH