I don't think so. -----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries+ow...@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries+ow...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of louie Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 3:05 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Text-to-Speech Support on Kindle coming for Vision Impaired users
Do you think we will have to pay more to read a book that is restricted to visual only? S On Dec 8, 2009, at 2:02 PM, Larry Wanger wrote: > Hi, > > My wife has a Kindle and, despite the publishers refusing us access, > it's > actually optional for magazines and books to offer this. My wife has > demonstrated the text to speech feature and it's fairly good. Many > magazines > and some books do still offer the speech option so know that once this > change is made to the menus we will enjoy some of what is available. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: macvisionaries+ow...@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries+ow...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Esther > Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 1:29 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Text-to-Speech Support on Kindle coming for Vision > Impaired > users > > Hi Jacob, > > Jake wrote: > >> 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. > That's the next step! and I agree that I'd rather have an accessible > iPhone app through Stanza. > Cheers, > Esther >> 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=136 > 2556&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_bli > nd_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-critici > zed-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. > > > > -- > > 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 > . > > louie louiem...@wavecable.com -- 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.
