Kindle 2 Text-to-speech Demonstration
March 7th, 2010 Posted in Kindle
www.geek.com Amazon’s Kindle 2 doing text-to-speech. Demo by Jeff Bezos.
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March 8th, 2010 at 12:12 am
@JennWilliams1 my son has epilepsy and cannot focus long enough to read. How good is the text to voice?
March 8th, 2010 at 12:51 am
@JennWilliams1
March 8th, 2010 at 1:32 am
I agree Jenn and Gavin,
No need to be so angry on here. Text to speech isn’t a bad thing and for some people it can help them. No big deal why is everyone so angry?
March 8th, 2010 at 1:38 am
I think you could use a kindle to educate your ignorant ass.
March 8th, 2010 at 1:41 am
Intelligence has nothing to do with what degree you have. Many of the professors I have had would never make it in the real world, and just stayed in school forever because they couldn’t do anything else.
March 8th, 2010 at 2:11 am
LMAO
March 8th, 2010 at 3:05 am
Hey I have a learning disability too! I have a hard time learning bullshit. Why don’t we text-to-speech your bullshit so I can learn!
March 8th, 2010 at 3:38 am
ok i dont even read that much and im considering buying one of these, its pretty sweet, and dont listen to 90% of the people commenting on here, maybe its their time-o-the month…
March 8th, 2010 at 3:50 am
I have no idea why those of you who are posting negative comments are so upset. As someone who drives a lot, I am considering buying myself this Kindle 2 for the text-to-speech capability. I’m also considering purchasing one for my teen-aged son who has learning disabilities; he needs to be read to in order for his brain to process while he follows along visually. What’s the big deal?
March 8th, 2010 at 4:16 am
You’re a complete and utter asshole.
March 8th, 2010 at 4:57 am
Oh the anger boiling beneath……I did graduate from college, and I do love my electronic books. Lot’s of them.
March 8th, 2010 at 4:58 am
What would you rather be. A nerd (smart person), or a complete dumbass. The choice is yours.
Studies show that people who graduate college have much lower unemployment rates… which would you rather be. People who graduate from grad school have even lower unemployment rates. Intelligence is about survival in the civilized world. Or you can end up as some gangbanger on the mean streets with a life expectancy of less than 40 feeling insecure because of constant threats to your survival.
March 8th, 2010 at 5:20 am
An auditory learner might find it eminently useful. Dynamic voice vocalizations are for people with ADD who want everything sugarcoated to prevent what they call a bored state of mind. Boredom is simply a lack of self control and willpower necessary to focus. When you develop that willpower, all boredom dissapears.
March 8th, 2010 at 5:31 am
omg, god forbid should a little boredom prevent you from learning something you dumbass.
Who cares what the voice sounds like, knowledge is knowledge. Unless you want everything everyone says to be sugarcoated with dynamic voices.
March 8th, 2010 at 6:31 am
Audiobooks always suck. Same shitty robotic voice for every word, every character…Shit.
March 8th, 2010 at 7:27 am
YOU are annoying ME with your poor use of English. Plug your ears, everybody!
March 8th, 2010 at 7:57 am
aaa they are geeks!! chet run run they will boring me!! with her geek words!!!!!!!!!!!!!! run everybody!
March 8th, 2010 at 8:33 am
Good point, but this software isn’t even close to replacing true audio-books. I just got a kindle and love it; however, i wouldn’t use the text-to-speech unless I was sitting in the pitch dark and couldn’t wait to finish a book.
March 8th, 2010 at 9:24 am
Yep, the screwed up capitalist economy is at it again – people who didn’t read before become readers, and people who assisted them at that by designing innovative technologies get rewarded for their efforts. What crooks! >:(
March 8th, 2010 at 10:03 am
The GREEDY writers and publishers can’t be happy enough to have more book sales because of a whole new market of people that are not normally readers but thru text to speech they will buy books ,,,, the greedy publishers and writers have to try and screw people out of more money . How much is enough you crooks .
March 8th, 2010 at 10:23 am
The Kindle? No, just the books.
March 8th, 2010 at 10:57 am
That sounds like Cr@p.
March 8th, 2010 at 11:43 am
That sounds like crap.
March 8th, 2010 at 12:14 pm
Can i download it?
March 8th, 2010 at 12:42 pm
VERY FAST….hope their is a way to slow the reading down…. What if kids want to listen… Or slow adults like me!