02-16-2024, 04:39 PM | #16 |
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How is the TTS on Boox Page vs Pocketbook? Is Pocketbook still the better way to go?
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02-16-2024, 05:34 PM | #17 | |
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As for the dedicated Pocketbook eReader, there are some YouTube videos demonstrating the tts function. The dedicated device uses ReadSpeaker voices. Personally, I prefer google’s voices, but that’s a matter of taste. https://pocketbook.ch/en-ch/news/text-to-speech-ch |
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02-16-2024, 05:49 PM | #18 |
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Pocketbook app will use what ever TTS is installed on android and most of the Playstare-ITS use the Google engine, or whatever engine is installed.
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02-16-2024, 06:06 PM | #19 |
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Yes, but the Pocketbook eInk devices (Era, InkPad, etc) use the ReadSpeaker voice engine.
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02-20-2024, 03:03 PM | #20 | |
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While Amazon support for screen readers is better than nearly all other reading apps (except Apple Books and maybe Google Play Books) it is sort of half baked, and hasn't improved in years. For example, it doesn't highlight text as it is reading it, even with Amazon's VoiceView on Amazon devices. For actual Android devices, PocketBook is a much better choice than Kindle app using TalkBack. It even highlights text as it reads. For Fire tablets, the Kindle app has TTS support for non-fixed layout content (subject to DRM restrictions), and it's relatively easy to install the required 4 APK files, including Google Play store to get PocketBook or other apps. For one-off downloads, I've used APKMirror without any issues. Last edited by tomsem; 02-20-2024 at 04:11 PM. |
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02-20-2024, 03:21 PM | #21 |
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yes, of course the Kindle app behavior is Accessibity, not TTS. TTS while usable for blind and partially sighted is general purpose. Kindle K3 and DXG have TTS but the PW3 and later have voice view aka talkback.
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02-20-2024, 04:39 PM | #22 | |
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K3 has a rudimentary screen reader called VoiceGuide, toggled with Shift+Spacebar. https://ilmk.wordpress.com/2011/10/1...-aka-kindle-3/ |
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02-21-2024, 04:33 AM | #23 |
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I have the DXG, K3, and PW3, but not the others. I did have an Oasis Gen2 but didn't investigate speech.
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02-21-2024, 10:47 AM | #24 | |
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02-23-2024, 07:46 AM | #25 | |
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Most Android devices use Google TTS as it is already part of the system. TTS applications are divided into TTS engine (Google TTS, Samsung TTS, Ai, MS etc) and content (machine speech, Ivona, Acapela etc) There are many good TTS engines and applications that support them, and they are completely free (it also depends on the brand of device, as in the case of Samsung and the Samsung TTS engine, which has its own engine and its own TTS voice / Language pack https://galaxystore.samsung.com/deta...lang_fr_fr_g01). For example, you can try it for free T2S or Acapela In the application for reading TTS, all you have to do is change the voice source in the settings. So, for example, I can use the application for reading TTS EVIE books, and choose Acapela or T2S as the TTS source in the application. (of course you can also use Google TTS) Last edited by Michal Jancik; 02-23-2024 at 07:57 AM. |
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