I'm not saying we should pay for anything but its an option. Once we have access to the device, we are part of the market for this product and we as much as anyone else can choose to purchase materials. Once you purchase the device, you purchase books and magazines as you wish. Obviously you would not purchase a book or magazine that didn't support TTS if you required that. But, understand that you're not being asked to pay for any content at all unless you choose to.
On Dec 8, 2009, at 5:54 PM, Jake wrote: > Hi Larry > But what blind individual in their right mind would pay for access to > just some content? I know the tts feature works, if I'm not mistaken > it uses Nuance Vocalizer, but as long as it's up to someone else to > decide which individual content we have access to then it simply won't > be worth my money, especially when we have to buy the books anyway. I > won't buy a book and then find out it doesn't have tts allowed, and I > shouldn't have to worry about such a thing just because some > buttonpusher decided it is a theoretical loss of money for them if I > do so. > > On Dec 8, 3:02 pm, "Larry Wanger" <lsw...@gmail.com> 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... >> 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.... >> 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_... >> 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-... >> 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 >>> athttp://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 >> athttp://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.
