If you can’t read a book because you’re driving or for some other reason, both the second-generation Kindle and the Kindle DX have an “experimental” feature that converts any text to speech and reads it to you. Calling a feature experimental means that it’s a peripheral Kindle feature that Amazon is working on; they’re available for Kindle owners to use but they might not be fully featured. These are also features that Amazon could choose to discontinue.

You can listen to speech either with headphones or through the Kindle’s speaker. It’s the perfect option for long car rides. If your car’s audio system has an input jack for audio, you can connect the Kindle to it with a standard audio plug. Mac text to speech voices. If you don't like the default Mac text to speech voice, you can change it to other voices. I've written about this in my 'Setting the Mac text to speech default system voice tutorial.' In the end all of the voices still sound computer generated, but the new 'Alex' voice is very good, and I also like the older 'Vicki' voice from time to time. Press the Text key, which is marked with the letters 'Aa' and is located next to the space bar on the front of the Kindle, then press the five-way controller to underline the 'Turn On' option for 'Text-to-Speech.' Alternatively, if you have a Kindle Touch, tap 'Turn On Text-to-Speech' and the Kindle starts reading. Press the controller to highlight the male or female voice option, then press the option to select it. On the Kindle Touch, tap the radio button next to the male or female options. I found some variability re: whether it worked on different apps. On an earlier version of this version of Read Aloud, for instance, it could read books in my Kindle app. Now that doesn’t seem to work. The Kindle app for Mac has it’s own Text to Speech (look under ‘Tools’), but there is no speed control, yet.

Despite the “experimental” label, these are some of the most useful and intriguing features of the Kindle. One of these is the Text-to-Speech feature. It enables your Kindle to read books, newspapers, blogs, or other text to you. To access Text-to-Speech, follow these steps: Open the document that you want your Kindle to read to you.

To access Text-to-Speech, follow these steps:

Open the document that you want your Kindle to read to you.
Press the Menu button.
Select Start Text-to-Speech from the Menu options.

The voice begins to talk. It’s remarkably human sounding for a computer-generated voice. You might find that the monotone expression and speed make the voice difficult to understand, however.

You can adjust the volume by pressing the Volume Up or Volume Down button on the side of your Kindle.

You can also adjust the speed at which the text is read, and choose either a male or female voice. These options (shown in the figure that follows) are available when you press the Aa key on the keyboard.

You can listen to speech either with headphones or through the Kindle’s speaker. It’s the perfect option for long car rides. If your car’s audio system has an input jack for audio, you can connect the Kindle to it with a standard audio plug. Just plug one end of the cable into the Kindle’s headphone jack and the other into your car stereo’s input jack, and you can hear the content read to you over your car’s speakers.

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I wanted to listen to books I've purchased on the Kindle store for my commute to work, but to my dismay the Kindle android app has no text-to-speech support (some of the Kindle eReaders do).

After a bit of research and trail-and-error, I found a surprisingly good solution. For the record, this works for me using an Samsung Galaxy S3 with Android 4.1.2

Here's what you'll need:

PC/Mac/Linux:

Android:

IVONA Kendra US English beta (for english speakers) (note this takes a long time to download, so be patient).

Note: The IVONA TTS app is far superior to the default engine and makes listening to books more enjoyable instead of sounding like driving directions. You must first install the app and then install your language package of choice. Verify it is working and selected as preferred TTS engine by going to Settings>Language and input>Text-to-speech output.

Convert your book into *.MOBI file:

Purchase your book as usual using the Kindle app (note, I don't know about other e-readers, but I'm sure this isn't limited to Kindle).
Connect the phone to the computer and open Calibre. You may have to configure the device to search for *.prc files using the drop-down menu. Locate the book, right click, and add to library. Note this will copy it to your local drive. Go to library and select 'Convert Books' and select the output filetype as MOBI. Now open the file directory and copy it back to the phone to your FBReader book directory (default /storage/sdcard0/Books).

Open book in FBReader and start listening!

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You may have to locate the book using the File tree if it isn't showing up under title.
To start voice output, open the book, select the menu button, and scroll down to 'Speak+' (it took me a while to realize the menu was scrollable).

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