VoiceView takes pride of place in Amazon’s list of Fire Tablet Accessibility features – “powered by IVONA Text-to-Speech,” with “IVONA’s award-winning natural language text-to-speech voices.” Amazon’s full “Guide to Reading Books with VoiceView” is here. Still, for those of you who want to try it and haven’t, this is how it works. As a result, I suspect that not as many e-reading fans have jumped on this functionality as you’d expect – and I’d be interested to get some feedback on VoiceView usage among TeleRead readers. Perhaps that’s an obvious starting point given the hardware involved, but I imagine that Amazon’s most committed e-book reading audience still opts for Kindles rather than Fires.
It also started off in a rather odd place for text-to-speech, introduced in Fire OS 5 Bellini for Fire tablets, which obviously address far more uses than simple e-reading.
Amazon’s new VoiceView text-to-speech technology, as recently explained by Peter Korn (at least for Kindles) on TeleRead, doesn’t seem to have impinged much on e-reading awareness yet.
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