The text-to-speech technology behind Kindle 2’s “Read to Me” is provided by Nuance technology. KindleBoards member ArtsAndHistoryFan – who worked at one time for a Berkeley speech technologies firm – posts that a recently-enhanced Nuance text speaker dubbed “Tom” seems to be the voice used in the new Kindle.
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It has been eight days since Amazon announced Kindle 2. (Is that possible? It seems like weeks since I ordered mine!)
Text-to-speech – a new feature introduced with the new Kindle – has seen some immediate controversy, with the Authors Guild protesting that the verbal reading of a book by a machine is a copyright infringement.
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