Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Technology Review: Amazon Unwraps Kindle 2.0

Another interesting aspect of Kindle 2.0

The Kindle 2's biggest new feature is text to speech, powered by software from Nuance. The device can read a book aloud to a user, and is designed to make it easy to switch between reading and listening. At Monday's launch event, Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon, demonstrated this technology by having the Kindle read from the Gettysburg Address. The device betrayed the stilted speech that is characteristic of most text-to-speech software, but nonetheless pronounced the words clearly and accurately.

Technology Review: Amazon Unwraps Kindle 2.0

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