Monday, August 12, 2013

Did you know you can use the text to speech feature on Kindle for PC?

Let me show you how

Download Kindle for PC with Accessibility Plugin from Amazons website.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000632481

In order to use the text-to-speech feature, an external screen reader program must be installed and running on the Windows PC. Tested screen readers include: JAWS and NVDA.An external screen reader is used to read aloud menus and navigation items, while book text is read by a built-in text-to-speech engine.

I just use Microsoft Narrator, on Windows 7 I open the Start menu, and type into the search bar Narrator. With both Narrator and The Kindle for PC application open, I open an ebook, then all I do is press ctrl+r to start the text to speech.

The voice sounds the same as it does on the Kindle Touch.

These are the keyboard shortcuts
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=amb_link_355061182_1?ie=UTF8&nodeId=200608290&pop-up=1&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-5&pf_rd_r=0H3D0EH673B5HA1214Y6&pf_rd_t=1401&pf_rd_p=1387024402&pf_rd_i=1000632481

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