KINDLE DX USER’S GUIDE 4
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EDITION
Chapter 3
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Tip:
You can also play or stop background audio by holding down the Alt key
and pressing the space bar. You can forward to the next track by holding down the Alt
key
and pressing the F key.
Text-to-Speech
Your Kindle can read aloud your books (where allowed by the rights holder),
newspapers, magazines, blogs, and personal documents with the Kindle Experimental
application, Text-to-Speech.
To turn on Text-to-Speech, follow these steps:
1.
Press the Text key
.
2.
Use the 5-way to navigate down so that the "Text-to-Speech" option is underlined.
Press the 5-way to select "turn on." In a few moments, you will hear your content
spoken aloud. You can either listen to it through the Kindle's external speakers or
plug in earphones into the headphone jack.
3.
By default, content is spoken with a male voice, but using the 5-way, you can select
a female speaking voice. You can also slow down or increase the rate of speech as
well as pause or turn off Text-to-Speech.
