And what is the voice on the IOS DEVICES LIKE?
Terri Amateur radio call sign KF6CA On 11/30/2013 6:20 AM, Russ Kiehne wrote:
Sorry to say, you are stuck with the speech synthesizer used by Kindle for PC. This is why I read my books on my Ipad. And if you use an ipad, ipod or iphone, you can read the books using your braille display. And you get much better navigation on an ios device. -----Original Message----- From: Terri Pannett Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2013 9:34 AM To: [email protected] Subject: W.E. and Kindle for PC 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!
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