Tag: Text-To-Speech
Amazon Acquires Ivona Software
Amazon announced today that they will acquire Ivona Software. Ivona is the company that currently supplies the Kindle Fire line of tablets with its speech recognition capabilities. Although there is…
2011 Book Expo America Free Kindle Samples and more
The 2011 Book Expo America brought all kinds of exciting events and upcoming projects for the Amazon Kindle and others. Amazon Publishing offered author signing and interviews, Kindle excerpts and…
Kindle DX accessibility lawsuit settled
When Amazon Kindle DX with 9.7″ eInk screen was announced it was dubbed “academic eReader”. Academic publications and textbooks don’t display well on a smaller 6″ screen. When the device…
…First Kindle DX review
Ok, lets pick up where we left off: My Kindle DX has just arrived… … Post #301… Exterior & Ergonomics Kindle DX is much larger and slightly heavier than Kindle…
Amazon would selectively disable Text-To-Speech
Macworld reports that Amazon would allow copyright holders to disable text-to-speech feature which was introduced in 2nd generation Kindle. This seems to be part of the concession with the Authors…