Text-to-speech – Amazon Technologies KINDLE DX User Manual

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KINDLE DX USER’S GUIDE 4

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EDITION

Chapter 3

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Tip:

You can also play or stop background audio by holding down the Alt key

and pressing the space bar. You can forward to the next track by holding down the Alt

key

and pressing the F key.

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.

Use the 5-way to navigate 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.

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