

Unfortunately, the Kindle doesn't have direct access to the Android Market so I manually downloaded the latest Cool Reader app from Sourceforce. You can get it from the Android Market app store. Cool Reader eBook app for Android for performing the actual TTS.Download the DRM removal plugins here (current file is called 'tools_4.8.zip'). It supports removing encryption for various eBook formats and includes Calibre plugins for Mobipocket (.prc/.mobi), Kindle Mobipocket (.azw), Kindle Topaz (.tpz/.azw1), Kindle Print Replica (.azw4), Adobe ePub (.epub), Adobe PDF (.pdf), B&N ePub (.epub), B&N/Fictionwise eReader (.pdb). The article links to the needed plugins (tools_4.8.zip) to allow you to remove DRM from your purchased eBooks.
#Text to speech kindle for mac how to

Now here's the How-To Tutorial to get TTS running on the Kindle Fire. Well, good news readers! I've found a way of enabling text-to-speech reading of e-books (including DRM protected eBooks) on the Kindle Fire without rooting it!įirst, let me show you the TTS in action with this video I uploaded to YouTube: Sure, you can probably root your Android-based device and find some third-party text-to-speech readers, but not everyone wants to root (jailbreak) their Kindle Fire. For whatever reason, Amazon disabled text-to-speech for the Kindle Fire. Now if only the Kindle Fire supported TTS like other versions of the Kindle, then life would be grand. Sure TTS isn't perfect, but it works pretty well. Some people may be vision impaired and want TTS to supplement or replace their manual reading of the text. Having TTS on your Kindle Fire enables you to listen to your e-books using text-to-speech without having to buy expensive audiobooks. Text-to-speech (TTS) for the Kindle Fire is a long sought after feature.
