how can i have kindle app read out loud on android

This one looked promising as it showed the use of TalkBack in the Android 6.01 (Marshmallow) operating system - the same as I had on my phone. What about the TalkBack Screen Reader?Ī Google search for 'Android Kindle Text to Speech' came up with several YouTube videos and web pages describing the use of the TalkBack to read text from the Kindle app. I next tried the Google Text to Speech system, as described on the TunesGo web site, only to see that, as I suspected, it does not work with the Kindle app. I first tried the Select to Speak facility in available in recent Android versions (See my colleague, Craig's blog from 5th July.) This lets you select a block of text and have it read back automatically, but having selected some text from a Kindle book, I just got a spoken message saying 'no text found at the location'. I should make it clear that I quickly decided to call the enquirer back, rather than leave him hanging on for a couple of hours! Do 'standard' text-to-speech options work with the Kindle App?įrom past experience of Kindle apps I wasn't expecting the 'standard' Android solutions to work, but I decided to give them a try. You would expect this to be relatively straightforward, but it took over two hours of investigation and I'm still not sure that I found the 'best' solution.

I had a phone call this week from an adult with dyslexia wanting to use text-to-speech with the Kindle app to help him read books on an Android tablet.

Posted by Allan Wilson on the 8th December, 2017

How can i have kindle app read out loud on android