Saturday, December 24, 2011

How does the Amazon kindle read audio books, with a real person's voice or a computer's voice?

I am getting an Amazon kindle. I know it reads audio books aloud. Will it read them like a CD does with a real narrator's voice or with a computer voice?|||There's actually two types of audio books Kindle will read.





They have Kindle eBooks with Text to Speech enabled. These are read with a computer voice. Then there are Audible audio books that the Kindle can do. These are essentially sound files and are usually narrated by a human being.|||It supports audio books which are .MP3 files. Those are books read aloud by people, often actors. They can be quite expensive and they are just the audio files, no e-book file to read along. E-books that are text-to-speech enabled are just ordinary e-book files read in a computer voice. Many publishers disable the text-to-speech feature though so you really need to have a look at some specific Kindle books and see how many of them are enabled.|||I'm not sure if Kindles actually support audio books in addition to regular books (audio books are basically just loooooong MP3s of a real person's voice). But I know that when it reads a regular book aloud, it's with a computer voice.|||See here:


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