Kindle 2 Text-to-speech Demonstration
www.geek.com Amazon’s Kindle 2 doing text-to-speech. Demo by Jeff Bezos.
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www.geek.com Amazon’s Kindle 2 doing text-to-speech. Demo by Jeff Bezos.
Tags: Demonstration, Kindle, Texttospeech
December 5th, 2009 at 2:31 am
Oh the anger boiling beneath. . . . . . I did graduate from college, and I do love my electronic books. Lot’s of them.
December 5th, 2009 at 2:55 am
What would you rather be. A nerd (smart person), or a complete dumbass. The choice is yours.
Studies show that people who graduate college have much lower unemployment rates. . . which would you rather be. People who graduate from grad school have even lower unemployment rates. Intelligence is about survival in the civilized world. Or you can end up as some gangbanger on the mean streets with a life expectancy of less than 40 feeling insecure because of constant threats to your survival.
December 5th, 2009 at 3:46 am
An auditory learner might find it eminently useful. Dynamic voice vocalizations are for people with ADD who want everything sugarcoated to prevent what they call a bored state of mind. Boredom is simply a lack of self control and willpower necessary to focus. When you develop that willpower, all boredom dissapears.
December 5th, 2009 at 4:02 am
omg, god forbid should a little boredom prevent you from learning something you dumbass.
Who cares what the voice sounds like, knowledge is knowledge. Unless you want everything everyone says to be sugarcoated with dynamic voices.
December 5th, 2009 at 4:02 am
Audiobooks always suck. Same shitty robotic voice for every word, every character. . . Shit.
December 5th, 2009 at 4:36 am
YOU are annoying ME with your poor use of English. Plug your ears, everybody!
December 5th, 2009 at 4:42 am
aaa they are geeks!! chet run run they will boring me!! with her geek words!!!!!!!!!!!!!! run everybody!
December 5th, 2009 at 4:55 am
Good point, but this software isn’t even close to replacing true audio-books. I just got a kindle and love it; however, i wouldn’t use the text-to-speech unless I was sitting in the pitch dark and couldn’t wait to finish a book.
December 5th, 2009 at 5:50 am
Yep, the screwed up capitalist economy is at it again – people who didn’t read before become readers, and people who assisted them at that by designing innovative technologies get rewarded for their efforts. What crooks! >:(
December 5th, 2009 at 6:38 am
The GREEDY writers and publishers can’t be happy enough to have more book sales because of a whole new market of people that are not normally readers but thru text to speech they will buy books ,,,, the greedy publishers and writers have to try and screw people out of more money . How much is enough you crooks .
December 5th, 2009 at 7:19 am
The Kindle? No, just the books.
December 5th, 2009 at 7:51 am
That sounds like Cr@p.
December 5th, 2009 at 8:00 am
That sounds like crap.
December 5th, 2009 at 8:26 am
Can i download it?
December 5th, 2009 at 8:37 am
VERY FAST. . . . hope their is a way to slow the reading down. . . . What if kids want to listen. . . Or slow adults like me!
December 5th, 2009 at 9:26 am
Erm. . . it’s more like the publishers are “in a tizzy” over audio rights, not just because of profits, but also for their clients’ protection. Publishers PAY WRITERS for the legal rights to produce THEIR work. Then, said publisher owns the rights to publish said book in whatever formats were agreed upon in the contract, for whatever amount of time that was agreed upon in the contract. Amazon is a third party and not even in on this deal so yeah–the text-to-speech thing is a bit encroaching, lol
December 5th, 2009 at 9:37 am
Some audio book performances – especially fiction – are quite dramatic. A text-to-speech engine will never be able to interpret the tone of a particular piece of text.
December 5th, 2009 at 10:06 am
I’m impressed. That synthetic voice is one of the better ones I’ve heard. Much better than some of the reviews said it was. But could they find a nerdier presenter for this device than this guy??
December 5th, 2009 at 10:17 am
Epic? FAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
December 5th, 2009 at 11:06 am
The Kindle 2 talks more eloquently than the presenter. The text to speech feature has publishers in a tizzy because it will cut into their audio book profits. I assume they’d charge me for reading a book to my 3 year-old if they could. In the end, technology will win out and text to speech will be free unless you want to hear James Earl Jones read it. Enabling the text to speech will be Kindle 2′s number one hack.
December 5th, 2009 at 11:25 am
have you heard Apple’s Alex, that’s also pretty good.
December 5th, 2009 at 11:50 am
I agree. It’s the first nearly believable text to speech that I’ve heard.
December 5th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
I really want to buy one. I just found out about it today and realised how close we are to have ultimate easy access to our own library of books with only a small readable screen.
Awesome!
December 5th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
It didn’t sound pre-recorded. Some of the pauses and the inflection didn’t sound natural, but it was pretty damn good compared to most text-to-speech technology.
December 5th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
Who bought one? Love it? Hate it? How is the TTS working out?