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Old 05-12-2016, 12:57 PM   #76
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---Guess what? This feature works on the Kindle Oasis.
Ohhh, perfect. And the Amazon.com WILL ship to Finland

Update: ordered one - the postage is more than the item itself... But well worth it if I can start listening to my ebooks while doing crafts etc, and I might be able to retire my old K2&3
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Does it work for the K7?
K7 is the unit with the 300ppi screen, i thought. Don't you mean K6?

The feature works on the latest Paperwhite (300ppi screen). It does not work on the one before - not yet.
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K7 is the unit with the 300ppi screen, i thought. Don't you mean K6?

The feature works on the latest Paperwhite (300ppi screen). It does not work on the one before - not yet.
* K7 = Kindle (7th Generation) = $79 Kindle = Kindle (2015)
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It works on the Voyage, Oasis and Paperwhite. I just copied the voice folder from the Oasis to the Voyage.

You can also build your own Audio Adapter. All you need is a USB host cable (OTG) and an external sound card: http://allesebook.de/anleitung/anlei...eo-demo-69667/

how do you control the volume on units that have no volume control?
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* K7 = Kindle (7th Generation) = $79 Kindle = Kindle (2015)
That's not what Amazon is saying on its site.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custo...deId=202006400

In any case, i don't think the basic Kindle has this feature. But I don't have one to test.
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This is what Amazon calls their Kindles:

* Kindle Oasis (8th Generation)

* Kindle Voyage (7th Generation)
* Kindle Paperwhite (7th Generation)
* Kindle (7th Generation)

* Kindle Paperwhite (6th Generation)

* Kindle Paperwhite (5th Generation)
* Kindle (5th Generation)

* Kindle Touch (4th Generation)

* Kindle Keyboard (3rd Generation)

* Kindle DX (2nd Generation)
* Kindle (2nd Generation)

* Kindle (1st Generation)
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That's not what Amazon is saying on its site.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custo...deId=202006400

In any case, i don't think the basic Kindle has this feature. But I don't have one to test.
It's the Kindle I have.
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I tried the sound file installer on my Paperwhite II (6th gen) and it was accepted and created the sound files on my Kindle running 5.7.4 firmware. I don't have a USB sound card so I can't tell if it will actually do anything.
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It's beginning to look as if the installer will run on any Kindle. It seems to do no device checking.
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Old 05-12-2016, 02:08 PM   #86
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I tried the sound file installer on my Paperwhite II (6th gen) and it was accepted and created the sound files on my Kindle running 5.7.4 firmware. I don't have a USB sound card so I can't tell if it will actually do anything.
I'll follow up in a few minutes.
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Just ordered it. Standard shipping costs about $6 + tax came to around $28 total. Not exactly cheap as compared to similar items on ebay, but kind of priceless to me. Many times I have wanted to switch over to TTS after my eyes tire from reading. This is not just for the blind, between diabetes and aging eyes TTS is a blessing. And reading from a tablet is not the same as switching from e-ink to TTS on the same device. Good move Amazon.
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I tried the sound file installer on my Paperwhite II (6th gen) and it was accepted and created the sound files on my Kindle running 5.7.4 firmware. I don't have a USB sound card so I can't tell if it will actually do anything.
Apparently the software isn't there yet. I attached the USB adapter but nothing happened.
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It's beginning to look as if the installer will run on any Kindle. It seems to do no device checking.
Kindle update packages can list multiple models. In fact, even to support, say, the PW2, it needs to list multiple PW2 DeviceId variants (serial number prefixes).

The hacks posted on MobileRead typically are signed to match any device that runs on a particular SoC.
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Yup, the voice installer is flagged for the PW2/KV/KT2/PW3. It's basically only missing the Oasis (in which case, KindleTool is your friend, either to get at the files, or to repack it for the Oasis).

(It does a platform check only, so it matches all Wario devices. Since the Oasis is based on a newer platform, Duet, and this specific variant of the package format doesn't support flagging multiple platforms, not flagging the Oasis is currently a technical limitation of the particular variant of the package format they decided to use).

But as was mentioned, it's nothing but a voice folder dropped in the USB root, so you really, really don't need the two layers of indirection that update package introduces to do that, but, hey .
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