[muggle]

Along with the bug fixes, do the recent updates/patches to the Kindle 2 also change Text-to-Speech?  I read that Amazon has changed its DRM model so that publishers have to OPT-IN for customers of their book to use the Text-to-Speech feature.  Any ideas?

 

[geoffthomas]

I just tested mine and see no sign that this is true.
It talks  the text on all the books that I have and also on USA today.
It does seem to start much faster than it used to, though.

 

[L.Canton]

That's an interesting move on Amazon's part. I honestly haven't noticed any difference though, the system functions as normal for me.

 

[pomlover2586]

No noticeable changes here.......

 

[luvmy4brats]

Actually, it's the opposite. If the publishers don't want the text-to-speech enabled on the books, they have to opt-out and request it be disabled. It's something that can/will be done through the book file, not the Kindle itself (or so I've been told)

I haven't heard of any books yet that don't work yet though.

 

[muggle]

Here is an article that CNET published that reports that 2.0.1 update does limit the text-to-speech:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10200969-1.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0

 

[MarthaT]

didn't really notice that on mine

 

[Kind]

They will probably implement it soon if nobody has seen it take effect yet....or perhaps most authors really don't care about the Text-To-Speech but the guild is making a big deal out of it for $$$