I did that.
I tried Eva, and Tom, but Kindle still uses Samantha.
Any more detailed instructions?
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Of *Devin Prater
*Sent:* Monday, September 22, 2025 11:29 AM
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*Subject:* Re: FW: [Tech-VI] Amazon is focusing on accessibility for
Kindle books
Under voices heading, hit voices.
On 9/22/2025 10:48 AM, 'Richard Turner' via VIPhone wrote:
I do not know if it is limited to the US.
I also cannot get the Kindle app to use anything but Samantha.
The portion of the settings app in iOS26 that was Speech Content
has been renamed to Read and Speak.
Under there everything has new names, so I am not clear what needs
to be enabled to get Kindle to use something else for this feature.
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<mailto:[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Ketan Kothari
*Sent:* Sunday, September 21, 2025 11:55 PM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: FW: [Tech-VI] Amazon is focusing on accessibility
for Kindle books
Hi,
Where is the feature available? Is it restricted to USA alone>?
How do I find it on my Iphone if it is available everywhere?
Thank you.
Best,
Ketan Kothari
On Mon, 22 Sept 2025 at 11:51, VIPhone <[email protected]>
wrote:
Actually, as of about a month ago, changing voices in the
Kindle Assistive Reader works perfectly. For example, when I
enable the reader, the Alex voice TTS is used. The only TTS
voices that do not appear to work are the Siri voices.
To switch the voice in the Kindle reader, simply select the
desired TTS in the spken contents area of the accessability
settings of the OS.
Mark
On Sunday, September 21, 2025 at 3:42:08 PM UTC-7 Richard
Turner wrote:
It seems to be there, but as for making use of it, not so
sure.
If I was actually using it, it is stuck on the Samantha
voice, which I dislike.
It is kind of buried.
Richard, USA
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*On Behalf Of *Barbara Stahl
*Sent:* Sunday, September 21, 2025 9:23 AM
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*Subject:* Re: FW: [Tech-VI] Amazon is focusing on
accessibility for Kindle books
Is the accessible reader function available in the apple
kindle ap, or just on kindle devices?
On Sun, Sep 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM 'Richard Turner' via
VIPhone <[email protected]> wrote:
Good e-Reader - Friday, September 19, 2025 at 1:58 AM
*Amazon is focusing on accessibility for Kindle books*
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Amazon has been pushing accessibility hard lately,
making Kindle books and Kindle e-readers better suited
for people with visual disabilities. They have added a
new tab to book description pages, called
Accessibility. It has new Accessibility metadata
<https://benetech.org/education-access-and-compliance/global-certified-accessible/>,
including Visual Adjustments, Non-Visual Reading,
Conformance, and Navigation.
Publishers have been prioritizing the submission of
e-books to Amazon that include accessibility features.
According to Publishers Weekly
<https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/content-and-e-books/article/98618-amazon-adds-benetech-accessible-metadata-to-ebooks-highlighting-simon-schuster-s-leadership.html>,
“The move comes as publishers face increasing legal
pressure to make digital content accessible,
positioning accessible publishing as both a
competitive advantage and a necessity as new laws such
as the European Accessibility Act and expanded digital
accessibility requirements under the Americans with
Disabilities Act drive industry momentum toward
universal accessibility.”
The e-books that publishers submit have to be
compliant with Benetech’s Global Certified Accessible
(GCA) standards
<https://benetech.org/education-access-and-compliance/global-certified-accessible/>.
This is a 3rd non-profit that works with publishers
worldwide to integrate accessibility specifications
into production workflows and certifies ongoing
compliance. Amazon’s decision to display this metadata
ensures that readers with vision impairments or
dyslexia can easily find titles that meet their needs.
Some major publishers submit books that are fully
accessible, but this does not necessarily mean they
are in an accessible format. The only publisher that
is putting a priority on it is Simon & Schuster. “The
publisher, which releases some 800 titles per year, is
moving from certifying about 60% of its catalogue
annually in 2022-2024 to 100% in 2025.”
There have been various Kindle software enhancements
that will appeal to readers with disabilities. Kindle
Assistive Reader is one of them and is fully available
in the update that was released a couple of days ago.
It will essentially convert any Kindle book into an
audiobook, utilizing an advanced text-to-speech system
that sounds natural. However, you do need Bluetooth
headphones, earbuds, or an external speaker. There is
a new system-wide text enlarger that will make all
menus and UI elements larger, giving users more
control over the text size they want on the entire Kindle.
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Amazon might be the only company to take accessibility
this seriously, but Kobo does too. They also have
smaller metadata information that has been available
for some time, such as a table of contents and alt
text for images. However, most of the features have
been there for over s dozen years. There have been no
software updates to add more features.
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Michael Kozlowski has written about audiobooks,
e-books and e-readers for the past eighteen years. He
Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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