- Kindle Text To Speech Software
- Kindle For Mac Text To Speech Guidelines
- Text To Speech
- Speech To Text On Kindle Fire
Kindle Text To Speech Software
Kindle For Mac Text To Speech Guidelines
Text To Speech
It appears that there's a text-to-speech 'flag' in the Kindle file-format that the Kindle looks for and responds to, disabling the feature if it's set to 0 (a perl script called mobi2mobi can. My wife did upgrade her Kindle and to our shock, Kindle discontinued the text to speech feature. The dictionary was the only reason to use a Kindle anymore, but the loss of text to speech psychologically diminished my drive to re-establish a relationship with my Kindle device. We were through and I was crushed.
Speech To Text On Kindle Fire
Dear community!
One thing that has been annoying me forever and is the one thing that Amazon stubbornly refuses: the impossibility to copy text from their PC/Mac reading apps. I actually think that this is precisely the reason why I haven’t been using Kindle books more for research, having to type-copy everything just made me get the books, not from Amazon though because I get a huge discount from another retailer. And everytime I resort to a Kindle book, it gets tricky. I have to restrain myself to “only use the Paperwhite” because then I could use Clippings Converter or use the Kindle cloud service. But that is not exactly the way it should work. Often, highlights are just pointers and you need the surrounding paragraph to know the context of a quote, which then entails “manually synchronizing” the the clippings file and text, which is even more awkward than typing from one window to another, on the same computer. Everything could be so perfect: you read anywhere, go back to your computer to find everything highlighted there ready to copy to your paper/article/website etc, but it isn’t...
At least not for non-US users. Customers from the US are free to copy from their computer app to their heart’s desire, which gave me the idea: “hey, there must be something in the settings somewhere that can be changed”... Only, I couldn’t find it... The reasoning is this: the app must somehow determine where it is (since it is the same app no matter where you download it) and accordingly enable or disable the “copy” feature. And since it cannot do that at any time (e.g. when the internet is off), I hope that there is a line in some settings file that stores this information. And I hope that this could lead to a permanent modification that would finally enable the copy feature for everyone.
I’m not tech-savy enough to find that setting, let alone determine its dependence on external factors, but I would hope that someone here is and come up with a step-by-step solution to getting a Kindle for PC/Mac (I’m actually on the Mac myself) app that *allows* copying of text.
(Disclaimer: I am not asking for a way to circumvent DRM, I am only asking for the location of a line of code that controls a certain feature in a computer application, something that is undeniably there.)
One thing that has been annoying me forever and is the one thing that Amazon stubbornly refuses: the impossibility to copy text from their PC/Mac reading apps. I actually think that this is precisely the reason why I haven’t been using Kindle books more for research, having to type-copy everything just made me get the books, not from Amazon though because I get a huge discount from another retailer. And everytime I resort to a Kindle book, it gets tricky. I have to restrain myself to “only use the Paperwhite” because then I could use Clippings Converter or use the Kindle cloud service. But that is not exactly the way it should work. Often, highlights are just pointers and you need the surrounding paragraph to know the context of a quote, which then entails “manually synchronizing” the the clippings file and text, which is even more awkward than typing from one window to another, on the same computer. Everything could be so perfect: you read anywhere, go back to your computer to find everything highlighted there ready to copy to your paper/article/website etc, but it isn’t...
At least not for non-US users. Customers from the US are free to copy from their computer app to their heart’s desire, which gave me the idea: “hey, there must be something in the settings somewhere that can be changed”... Only, I couldn’t find it... The reasoning is this: the app must somehow determine where it is (since it is the same app no matter where you download it) and accordingly enable or disable the “copy” feature. And since it cannot do that at any time (e.g. when the internet is off), I hope that there is a line in some settings file that stores this information. And I hope that this could lead to a permanent modification that would finally enable the copy feature for everyone.
I’m not tech-savy enough to find that setting, let alone determine its dependence on external factors, but I would hope that someone here is and come up with a step-by-step solution to getting a Kindle for PC/Mac (I’m actually on the Mac myself) app that *allows* copying of text.
(Disclaimer: I am not asking for a way to circumvent DRM, I am only asking for the location of a line of code that controls a certain feature in a computer application, something that is undeniably there.)