how to make amazon kindle app read out loud free

Publisher’s Note: Big thanks to Chris for the terrific little post above now here’s a different perspective.

Still, it’s better than nothing if you want to listen to a book while doing something else, such as driving. If you pause it, it starts over again at the top of the page. The text-to-speech reader isn’t all that great, with weird computerized inflections. This will work both in the “Books” reader that the Fire uses for bought-from-Amazon Kindle books, and the “Documents” reader used for e-books from somewhere else.

There’s also a speed control that will let you speed up the reading. Just press the “play” button and the text-to-speech software will start reading it to you (unless you’ve downloaded the Audible audiobook for this book, which supersedes the text-to-speech mode). Now tapping the screen to open the toolbar will also open a bar at the bottom of the screen that has a “play” button-the same interface that comes up if you’ve bought an Audible audiobook that syncs to the Kindle e-book. Then tap the back arrow at the top of the screen to return to the book you were reading. About a third of the way down, the option “Text-to-Speech (When available for the title)” will be switched off. Choose “Additional Settings” and a settings screen will open, with a number of toggle switches at the right. To activate text-to-speech, just open an e-book, then tap in the middle of the screen to open the toolbar interface, then tap on the three-dot icon at the upper right. Although it’s not enabled by default, it’s actually remarkably easy to turn on. As it happens, the Fire’s e-reading application does incorporate text-to-speech, a feature missing from the most recent models of e-ink Kindle. If you bought the new Fire tablet when it was on sale for Black Friday, you might be wondering if you can have it read books aloud to you.

How to make amazon kindle app read out loud free