Re: "Mutineer's Moon (Dahak Series)" by David Weber

In article <[email protected]>, Titus G  <[email protected]> wrote:
>On 26/03/24 08:59, Cryptoengineer wrote:
>> On 3/25/2024 12:11 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
>snip
>>>
>>> I've lost one jailbroken 2011 Kindle Keyboard to some sort of
>>> hardware issue, but the other is still going strong.  It is amusing
>>> how slow search gets when you have 1240 books loaded.  Definitely
>>> don't want to "trade up" to one without the read-out-loud feature and
>>> a headphone jack.
>> 
>>  I use the kindle app on ipad and an android phone, and haven't
>> noticed any ads beyond 'you might like this book'.
>> 
>> ...but I don't get the text-to-voice, and I'd love to have it.
>> 
>
>My first Kindle was bought in 2011 but my books are all stored in
>Calibre so I never would have had more than a hundred on it so never
>noticed speed of response to anything but the touch screen on later
>models is far superior for ease of use. I use the Amazon provided Kindle
>for PC and do not register the Kindle so do not receive any ads.
>I suspect you would be very disappointed with the quality of text to
>voice on this 2011 Kindle as the computer just produces words in a
>computer voice with no change in emotion, speed or volumne.
>

Yeah, I have all my ebooks in Calibre as well, the 1240 also on the
Kindle are just the ones I haven't read yet.

I posted an example of the text-to-voice here a few weeks ago, let me
dig it up agian:

	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0nxRIQz0kc

There are a few settings you can tweak.  As I recall I picked a female
voice and either sped it up a little or slowed it down a little the
default was off one way or the other.

It takes a little getting used to, but I find it quite comprehensible.

There are occasional comic aspects.  For instance, Lindsay Buroker has
a writing tic where her characters say "Hmm." as a thinking pause.
The Kindle pronounces this as "hectameters".  Since the first place
I encountered it was a semi-steampunk setting where "hectameters" was
a plausible mild swear, it took me a while to figure out what was going
on.

I get the feeling from reading Amazon reviews that lots of people expect
audiobooks to be something close to radio dramas.  I don't get that at
all.  A narrator should not try to act the book.
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