Helpful Kindle – by Marielle

Kindle's New Voice Is Almost Human
Science Out Of the Box
All Things Considered, March 7, 2009 - Jackie Leiden

Do you have a friend who has trouble reading? Well, you should tell them about the Kindle. It reads the books to them. And it’s not just like a robot voice.

"We'll audition lots and lots of voice actors, pick one we like, and we'll record them reading untold amounts of sentences over a period of maybe a month," said Andy Aaron, a speech researcher at IBM. "We'll take those sentences, chop them up into individual pieces called phonemes, and build a library of that person's voice." It sounds more realistic, and more like an actual voice.

Since I am dyslexic, I think I’m going to get one of these so if there is a big book project, I will be able to do it more easily.