It enables your Kindle to read books, newspapers, blogs, or other text to you. One of these is the Text-to-Speech feature. These are also features that Amazon could choose to discontinue.ĭespite the “experimental” label, these are some of the most useful and intriguing features of the Kindle. 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. 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.
Kindle App for iOS Updated with New Accessibility Features Wednesday 9:58 AM PDT by Juli Clover Amazon has updated its Kindle app for. This is the key marked with the symbol “Aa.” 2. To make the Kindle “read aloud” function work, follow these steps: 1. Activating the Kindle Read-Aloud Feature.
Amazon has decided to leave it up to publishers to enable the Kindle’s read-aloud function on a title-by-title basis. Still, you can use workarounds to read aloud the screen content. The native Kindle app for iOS or Android doesn't have Text-to-Speech feature normally. Use Text-to-Speech on Kindle for iOS/Android. Or when you have a resource open, you can simply click on the book cover icon to expose the menu options and then select Read Aloud.The Windows and Mac version of this app are similar, yet the screenshots below are taken from the former. The above method doesn’t work for Logos Bible Software for desktop, but Logos has this feature built into it.Select (i.e., highlight) the text you want to hear, and press your “key” (e.g., Option+Esc) to listen. If I were using this feature to listen to audiobooks, I’d set the speed to “Fast.” But for my purposes, I think that “Normal” (or slightly faster) is about right.ĥ. The default shortcut for activating Text to Speech is Option+Esc, which is what I’ve been using. Check the box for “Speak selected text when the key is pressed.” Update on : macOS Sierra does not have a “Dictation & Speech” icon. Open “System Preferences,” and select “Dictation & Speech.” (On listening to audio-Bibles, see here and here.) This is especially helpful when you want to listen to a variety of English translations while looking at a particular passage in Greek or Hebrew.ġ. Listen to an English Bible translation that I don’t already own as an audio-Bible.Sometimes my ears hear errors that my eyes miss. This helps pace me, and it helps me spot typos. Listen to something I’m copy-editing (whether it’s something that I or someone else wrote).Listen to a relatively long blog post or email while doing something else that allows me to multitask.Did you know that your Mac can read text aloud? The feature is called “Text to Speech.”
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