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

In article <[email protected]>,
Cryptoengineer  <[email protected]> wrote:
>Titus G <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 29/03/24 18:19, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
>>> 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
>> 
>> Thanks, but I thought that that was terrible and I couldn't understand
>> much without reading at the same time.
>> 
>>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> My complaint is with the Kindle as narrator. I have never listened to an
>> audio book. I am sure my eyes, not knowing what to do, would close
>> inducing sleep.
>> 
>> 
>
>One I use on my Android phone (Moon+ reader) has a text to voice feature.
>It has a little inflection, rising at the end of questions, an momentary
>pauses
>at the end of sentences. However, it makes errors, particularly with names
>and
>acronyms. At one point, it enchanterd a text referring to a woman's 'DD'
>assets, which it pronounced 'Doctor of Divinity'.
>
>BTW, I'm posting this using 'NewsTal', the only iPad capable newsreader on
>the Apple Store. It has some truly brain dead design decisions, but sort of
>
>works. Does it look ok?
>
>Pt
>
>

Looks fine!

Supposedly Thunderbird for Ipad is in the works..
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