Hi,
I hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving. I appreciate the help I received
from you who answered my question regarding reading books with Kindle PC.
I finally downloaded the Kindle for PC app and installed it. WindowEyes
will read the menus if I use the alt key to open the menu and then use
the left and right arrows and up and down arrows to navigate them. But
when I press control R to read a Kindle book, these awful Sapi voices
read it instead of my default synthesizer, DecTalk. Is WindowEyes
reading the book or is some other screenreading software taking over? I
can't stand Sapi voices! Can I read the book using my BrailleEdge? Does
the PC version of Kindle support brailleback? Can I get rid of the Sapi
voices and use DecTalk instead?
I listened to part of a podcast which confused me even more. The woman
said the voices were Nuance speech and they were called Tom and
Samantha. But I read somewhere else that the voices for the Kindle for
PC were Anna and somebody else--can't remember his name. The description
for the accessibility of the Kindle stated the voices were
naturally-speaking Ivona.
What's the deal? The voices on the podcast sound a little better than
the Sapi voices, but I wouldn't want to listen to books read by them.
Does anyone know what the voices in the Kindle Fire Hd and Hdx sound like?
Too bad they didn't use the Neospeech voices used in the BookSense! Paul
and Kate are the most human-sounding voices I've ever heard!
I would appreciate it if someone could clear up my confusion. If I can't
use my W.E. default voices, then how can I use braille? So far, the PC
version of Kindle is extremely disappointing!
--
Terri Amateur radio call sign KF6CA
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