Agreed. Chris.
? ????? t?? Te?? µe sa?. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jake" <j.schm...@gmail.com> To: "MacVisionaries" <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 3:25 PM Subject: Re: Text-to-Speech Support on Kindle coming for Vision Impaired users But will we be able to actually read the books after the author's guild basically said we have no right to and Amazon caved to them? It can have all the audible menus in the world, but if I can't read the book based on a licensing decision then it's still of no use. Personally, I'd rather have an accessible version of the iPhone app anyway. $400 simply for an Ebook reader is just too much. Currently, the Kindle II has tts capability for books but only if thepublisher allows it, and most do not thanks to the author's guild. Esther wrote: > Hi, > > I'm surprised that I haven't seen any mention on this list of Amazon's > announcement that they will update the Kindle 2 and Kindle DX to > include an audible menu that will use text-to-speech and add new large > fonts to better support vision-impaired users, and will implement > these changes in 2010. This has been covered in a few places since > yesterday. > > Here's the press release at Amazon: > > http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1362556&highlight= > > A few links to articles reporting on this: > • Yahoo (basically the news release) > http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Blind-and-VisionImpaired-bw-2422175966.html?x=0&.v=1 > • Techflash (has some commentary from the NFB, student reaction, and > other description) > http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2009/12/kindle_to_feature_new_tools_for_blind_visually_impaired.html > > and here's some of the older (November 2009) criticism of the Kindle's > text-to-speech access from geek.com: > http://www.geek.com/articles/gadgets/kindle-dx-text-to-speech-access-criticized-20091111/ > > Cheers, > > Esther -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
