Amazon FIRE TABLET, User Manual

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Listen to Content with Text-to-Speech
Listen to Kindle content on Fire tablet with Text-to-Speech
(FireOS 5 and higher).
Note: Most Kindle content and personal documents are
eligible for Text-to-Speech. If Text-to-Speech capability is
available for your book, you’ll see
Text-to-Speech:
Enabled on the product detail page before you purchase
your book.
1. While reading, tap the center of the screen, and then
tap the menu icon
Aa
in the upper right corner.
2. Tap More , and then tap the switch next to Text-to-
Speech
to turn it on.
3. In your Kindle book, tap the screen to show the
progress bar, and then tap the Play button next to the
progress bar to hear the text read aloud. To increase or
decrease the reading speed of the Text-to-Speech
voice, tap the
Narration Speed
icon.
You can listen to the Text-to-Speech voice through the
external speakers on your device or through your
earphones plugged into the headphone jack.
Tip: If you’re reading a book in another language, you can
download a Text-to-Speech voice for that language without
leaving the book. Tap the download prompt at the bottom
of the progress bar to install the Text-to-Speech voice.
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