Russ,
When you say it's accessible, do you mean every function? Until I'm shown
otherwise, I have my doubts that Amazon makes anything 100 percent
accessible.
Gary King
[email protected]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Russ Kiehne" <[email protected]>
To: "Duyahn Walker" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2013 8:23 AM
Subject: Re: W.E. and Kindle for PC
The new Kindle fire hdx is accessible. It uses Ivona as it's tts.
-----Original Message-----
From: Duyahn Walker
Sent: Friday, November 29, 2013 9:59 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: W.E. and Kindle for PC
That is something you will need to speak to amazon's accessible team
about.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terri Pannett" <[email protected]>
To: "Duyahn Walker" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2013 11:46 AM
Subject: Re: W.E. and Kindle for PC
Well, I'm glad it was free! What about the Kindle Fire HD and HDX? What
voices does it use? And braille is supported?
Terri Amateur radio call sign KF6CA
On 11/29/2013 9:40 AM, Duyahn Walker wrote:
You can not change the synthesizer reading the book. You only get male,
and female voices from Sapi. Dectalk or eloquence won't read the books.
Braill as far as I know is not supported.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Terri Pannett" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2013 11:34 AM
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!
--
Terri Amateur radio call sign KF6CA
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