Amazon Technologies Kindle DX D00611 - Manual (Page 71)

KINDLE DX USER’S GUIDE 2 nd EDITION Chapter 3 · 71
TEXT-TO-SPEECH
Your Kindle can read aloud your books (where allowed by the rights holder),
newspapers, magazines, blogs, and personal documents with the Kindle Experimental
application, Text-to-Speech.
To turn on Text-to-Speech, follow these steps:
1. Press the Text key
2. Move the 5-way down so that the “Text-to-Speech” option is underlined. Press the
5-way to select “turn on.” In a few moments, you will hear your content spoken
aloud. You can either listen to it through the Kindle’s external speakers or plug in
earphones into the headphone jack.
3. By default, content is spoken with a male voice, but using the 5-way, you can select
a female speaking voice. You can also slow down or increase the rate of speech as
well as pause or turn off Text-to-Speech.
4. While Text-to-Speech is playing, the screen will update to the corresponding page
of text.
For PDF files and books which the rights holder does not allow Text-to-Speech to read
aloud their content, then “Text-to-Speech” will be grayed and you will not be able
to select it.
Tip: By default, Text-to-Speech starts reading at the beginning of the page currently
displayed. To start reading at a particular spot, move the cursor where you’d like the
reading to begin before starting Text-to-Speech.