Text-To-Speech; Chapter 4 Searching On Kindle; Introduction To Search - Amazon Kindle User Manual

Tip: You can also play or stop background audio by holding down the Alt key
forward to the next track by holding down the Alt 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.
4. While Text-to-Speech is playing, the screen will update to the corresponding page of text.
For PDF files and books which the rights holder does not allow Text-to-Speech to read aloud their content, then "Text-
to-Speech" will be dimmed and you will not be able to select it.
By default, Text-to-Speech starts reading at the beginning of the page currently displayed. To start reading at a particular spot,
move the cursor where you'd like the reading to begin before starting Text-to-Speech.
Tip: You can also play or stop Text-to-Speech by holding down the Shift key
can pause and resume Text-to-Speech by pressing the Spacebar. Text-to-Speech continues playing even if you put your Kindle
to sleep by sliding and releasing the power button. Sleeping your Kindle while Text-to-Speech is playing allows you to continue
listening but locks all of the keys and buttons so you don't inadvertently press one.
CHAPTER 4
Searching on Kindle
Kindle allows you to take advantage of powerful search capabilities. You can search locally on Kindle or remotely at the Kindle
Store, Wikipedia, or the Web.

4.1 Introduction to Search

This section describes the types of searches that you can perform using Kindle and how to use search.
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