Title: Text-to-Speech still a work in progress
Product review: At least I trust amazon is still working on it . . . I bought a Kindle because I have low vision, and want to be able to put a moderately-priced recorded book on a portable device without having to load a bunch of CDs on my computer first. The Read-to-Me feature is pretty disappointing: Both the male and female voices drone monotonously, with poorly inflected syntax. Example: The text says "If you speak to me so, I will leave." The Kindle voice says, "If you speak to me (pause) so I will leave." This causes double-takes while I sort out what the text actually says and I miss the next bit.I hope amazon doesn't give up, as we Baby Boomers are aging fast, and there is a growing market for things that meet our needs going forward, such as loss of vision and loss of hearing.
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