I am getting an Amazon kindle. I know it reads audio books aloud. Will it read them like a CD does with a real narrators voice or with a computer voice?
How does the Amazon kindle read audio books, with a real persons voice or a computers voice?
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I'm not sure if Kindles actually support audio books in addition to regular books (audio books are basically just loooooong MP3s of a real person's voice). But I know that when it reads a regular book aloud, it's with a computer voice.
See here:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003FSUDM4/?tag=7357-20
It supports audio books which are .MP3 files. Those are books read aloud by people, often actors. They can be quite expensive and they are just the audio files, no e-book file to read along. E-books that are text-to-speech enabled are just ordinary e-book files read in a computer voice. Many publishers disable the text-to-speech feature though so you really need to have a look at some specific Kindle books and see how many of them are enabled.
There's actually two types of audio books Kindle will read.
They have Kindle eBooks with Text to Speech enabled. These are read with a computer voice. Then there are Audible audio books that the Kindle can do. These are essentially sound files and are usually narrated by a human being.