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		<title>Apple explains how to sync narration tracks in EPUB files for iBookstore</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 13:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Walters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in June, Apple introduced a new iBook feature it calls Read Aloud, which is similar to Nook&#8217;s Read to Me feature in that it provides a human voice narration that syncs to the onscreen text. In both commercial cases, the feature is meant primarily for children&#8217;s books. Now Apple has updated its iBookstore Assets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Authors Guild and publishers oddly quiet on the matter of iPad&#8217;s VoiceOver</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/authors-guild-and-publishers-oddly-quiet-on-the-matter-of-ipads-voiceover/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I didn’t notice this David Pogue article from August 12th until Techdirt and Slashdot pointed it out just the other day. Though most of the article is about other cool features offered by iOS 4 (unified contacts, Facetime tricks), in the last section Pogue talks about the VoiceOver “spoken books” feature on the iPad and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looktel bringing hand-held text-to-speech to Windows Mobile smartphones</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/looktel-bringing-hand-held-text-to-speech-to-windows-mobile-smartphones/</link>
		<comments>http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/looktel-bringing-hand-held-text-to-speech-to-windows-mobile-smartphones/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[blind]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember the Intel Reader, the $1500 handheld device that acts as a hand-held portable scanner/OCR/text-to-speech device for the blind? A company called LookTel is in the beta stage of bringing something similar to Windows Mobile camera phones. The device will speak aloud text (package labels or street signs) or identify currency within its field of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apple releases iBooks information</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/apple-releases-ibooks-information/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ePub]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple has posted a webpage with details about the iBooks iPad app. There are a couple of points of particular interest to TeleReaders. First of all, iBooks will allow you to “add free ePub titles to iTunes and sync them to the iBooks app on your iPad.” That’s right, the page specifically uses the word [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Through text-to-speech, Roger Ebert can speak again</title>
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		<comments>http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/through-text-to-speech-roger-ebert-can-speak-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past several years, film critic Roger Ebert has been unable to talk, due to complications from cancer surgery that left him without a lower jaw. But thanks to CereProc, a company that mines words and syllables from existing audio sources (such as the many commentary tracks and TV shows Ebert has recorded) and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Text to speech voices that don&#8217;t suck!</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/text-to-speech-voices-that-dont-suck/</link>
		<comments>http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/text-to-speech-voices-that-dont-suck/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:17:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ereaders]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[text to speech]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From eBooks Just Published: I’ve just released two incredible new text to speech voices for use with Text2Go. They are called Amy and Brian and have been developed by IVONA Software. I really think they’re amazing &#8211; certainly the best I’ve ever heard. You can read the press release on the Text2Go blog or better [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two weeks with an Astak 5&#8221;: Text-to-speech mode and parting thoughts</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/two-weeks-with-an-astak-5-text-to-speech-mode-and-parting-thoughts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/two-weeks-with-an-astak-5-text-to-speech-mode-and-parting-thoughts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 01:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Review: Astak 5" Pocket PRO EZ Reader]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is one last aspect of the Astak that I need to review before shipping it back in. That is one of the major ways it differs from the Sony, and one of the ways it is similar to the Kindle 2: text-to-speech read-aloud mode. Note that with the version of firmware with which the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More text to speech conversion</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/audiobooks/more-text-to-speech-conversion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.teleread.com/audiobooks/more-text-to-speech-conversion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[audiobooks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received the following email from Mark Gladding, founder of Tumbywood Software in Australia. I reprint it because it is important that our readers with disabilities have as much information available to them as possible. The Text2Go software he describes costs US$ 45, which includes one voice. I noticed your recent article describing converting ebooks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intel introduces new digital book reader for the blind</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/intel-introduces-new-digital-book-reader-for-the-blind/</link>
		<comments>http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/intel-introduces-new-digital-book-reader-for-the-blind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[blind]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Venturebeat has an article looking at the $1,500 Intel Reader portable text-to-speech device Intel has just released. It is the size of a paperback book and can read from files or capture printed text with its built-in digital camera. The Intel Reader is meant specifically for the blind or visually-impaired. “We want people to experience [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The scariest thing about the Kindle 2&#8217;s text to speech capabilities</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/drm/the-scariest-thing-about-the-kindle-2s-text-to-speech-capabilities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.teleread.com/drm/the-scariest-thing-about-the-kindle-2s-text-to-speech-capabilities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:51:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Rothman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How good is the Kindle 2’s text to speech feature? No, the TTS isn’t the equal of a human voice, especially one as memorable as that of Jim Dale, the Harry Potter narrator shown with actress Glenn Close. Many have complained of the lack of inflection. Some have cited this as one reason for Amazon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hachette clarifies its position on text to speech</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/hachette-clarifies-its-position-on-text-to-speech/</link>
		<comments>http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/hachette-clarifies-its-position-on-text-to-speech/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Publishers Weekly Hachette has issued a statement on its position on text to speech for the Kindle as well as other hardware platforms. Hachette pretty much follows the Amazon position, saying that unless its authors object, it has no issue with adding TTS for the vast majority of its books. The only exceptions, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>eBooks Just Published to create an EPUB text to speech reader</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/ebooks-just-published-to-create-an-epub-text-to-speech-reader/</link>
		<comments>http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/ebooks-just-published-to-create-an-epub-text-to-speech-reader/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ePub]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now this looks very, very interesting and will certainly be a huge blessing to a large community of challenged readers. Here is the beginning of a long article on the site. There are far more technical issues than I would have imagined. Speech or not, anyone who is interested in creating EPUB books will want [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Author posts text to speech FAQ for authors</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/dear-author-posts-text-to-speech-faq-for-authors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/dear-author-posts-text-to-speech-faq-for-authors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 20:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re an author, or if you are just curious, you might want to go over to Dear Author and take a look and Jane&#8217;s FAQ. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: At the suggestion of Peter Brantley of the Internet Archive, I offer up this Frequently Asked Questions for Authors regarding the Text To Speech (TTS) functionality [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cory Doctorow: Authors Guild worrying about wrong thing</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/drm/cory-doctorow-authors-guild-worrying-about-wrong-thing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.teleread.com/drm/cory-doctorow-authors-guild-worrying-about-wrong-thing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a new column he has penned for the Guardian, Cory Doctorow suggests that the Authors Guild has “lost the plot” in their fight against the Kindle’s text-to-speech function. After laying out why that function is not an infringement, or even if it is Amazon is the wrong one to complain about, Doctorow explains that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon backs off on Kindle text-to-speech feature</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/audiobooks/amazon-backs-off-on-kindle-text-to-speech-feature/</link>
		<comments>http://www.teleread.com/audiobooks/amazon-backs-off-on-kindle-text-to-speech-feature/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 01:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adobe]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Brad Stone in the New York Times “Bits” blog, Amazon has announced that it will leave up to the publisher the decision of whether a book can be read aloud by the Kindle’s speech synthesizer. In their statement, they continue to insist that the feature is completely legal—”Nevertheless, we strongly believe many rights-holders [...]]]></description>
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