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On my android devices I have available excellent ebook readers with good library management tools, and which can use the wide variety of excellent android voices available from many sources.
On my windows devices, while Calibre does an absolutely freaking wonderful job of library management, no good, well featured READER app has text-to-speech capability.
Sure I can run Balaboka, and get TTS, but I can't use it as my usual reader, it just doesn't support the ability to read things the way I want to.
On Moon Reader, I can use the publisher's css, or I can set Moon to my favorite font and such and turn off most of the built in css. I get some of that with Calibre reader, some of it with Freda, but not all, and neither of them do TTS, so I can't switch back and forth between text mode and speech as I go through my day on the same device.
Of course, in an ideal world, the reader on my android device would sync with my windows reader so when I open a book, I'ld be at the same place no matter which device I was on.
Then, there's the derth of voices on Windows. Essentially all the decent ones are expensive, and all the free ones are of marginal quality, and none of them adjust pitch and speed as fluidly as the voices on android.
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Does anyone have offers of explanations, or suggestions about what to use?
Thanks
Rick
On my android devices I have available excellent ebook readers with good library management tools, and which can use the wide variety of excellent android voices available from many sources.
On my windows devices, while Calibre does an absolutely freaking wonderful job of library management, no good, well featured READER app has text-to-speech capability.
Sure I can run Balaboka, and get TTS, but I can't use it as my usual reader, it just doesn't support the ability to read things the way I want to.
On Moon Reader, I can use the publisher's css, or I can set Moon to my favorite font and such and turn off most of the built in css. I get some of that with Calibre reader, some of it with Freda, but not all, and neither of them do TTS, so I can't switch back and forth between text mode and speech as I go through my day on the same device.
Of course, in an ideal world, the reader on my android device would sync with my windows reader so when I open a book, I'ld be at the same place no matter which device I was on.
Then, there's the derth of voices on Windows. Essentially all the decent ones are expensive, and all the free ones are of marginal quality, and none of them adjust pitch and speed as fluidly as the voices on android.
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Does anyone have offers of explanations, or suggestions about what to use?
Thanks
Rick