My new favorite feature of the Kindle is its text-to-speech. I took the bus/ferry to Vancouver yesterday and listening to a book on the Kindle was a great way to pass the time – especially on the hour-long bus/train rides, on which reading can give one a headache.
Another thing I like about the Kindle is that if you want to see the dictionary definition of a word, you just move the cursor beside the word and a definition pops up.
Do you think it is good enough? I mean, I realize that this is no audio-book quality stuff, but would it be enough to understand the book without reading the text? Also, how is the quality of the speech engine?
ReplyDeleteHi Sujith. It's actually pretty good. I listened to all 335 pages of Sigrid Undset's Catherine of Siena this way, a little bit at a time. The only issue is that listening to a book takes a lot longer than reading it.
ReplyDeleteYou can hear some demos of it on YouTube, e.g., http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgxSR72TWrY