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Daily Obsession: Kindle 2 MP3 playback and text to speech

In today's two-part Daily Obsession, we take a look at the Amazon Kindle 2's experimental MP3 playback and text-to-speech features, as well as using the non-experimental Audible support to listen to MP3s.

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Mobile | by C.K. Sample III | Wed Apr 15, 2009 9:00AM | 0 comments

 

Figure 1 & 2: Screenshots of the Kindle 2's Experimental section and Audio Book support

We're currently working on a detailed full review of the Amazon Kindle 2, following up on our unboxing and first impressions article from last week, and ended up shooting a bit of video while examining the audio book, MP3, and text-to-speech features of the device. 

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 Part 1: MP3 and audio book playback on the Kindle 2 via YouTube:

Part 2: Kindle 2 text-to-speech via YouTube:

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