I'm a bit confused, here. When I'm reading a book, and I have to stop, I
just hit the space bar, which pauses it. Even if I'm away from it long
enough for the Kindle to go into sleep mode, once I hit the slider switch
to
wake it up, it goes to my book, and I hit space bar again, and I'm off and
reading. Does what you say apply to, perhaps, starting a book, or going
to
the home screen, then back to the book?
Shoshana
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From: "Sherry Gomes" <sherriola@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 5:28 PM
Subject: [vi-kindle] Re: Questions about options while reading a Kindle
book?
no, you don't have to go into the menus to turn it on to read a book.
Maybe
I'm calling the symbols key something wrong, but I open a book and press
shift plus what I think is the symbols key, two keys to the left of the
navigation square, and TTS starts up. Every time.
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On Behalf Of Loy
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 3:13 PM
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Subject: [vi-kindle] Re: Questions about options while reading a Kindle
book?
This turns on voice guide but not text to speech. Don't you have to use
the
font key, the key right of the space bar to go into a menu where you can
turn on text to speech.
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From: "Sherry Gomes" <sherriola@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 4:32 PM
Subject: [vi-kindle] Re: Questions about options while reading a Kindle
book?
it's the symbols and shift key I believe. It works every time for me.
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On Behalf Of Rick Alfaro
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 2:20 PM
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Subject: [vi-kindle] Re: Questions about options while reading a Kindle
book?
Tim,
I understand there's supposed to be a hotkey to turn TTS on without
having
to go into the page preferences menu. According to the podcast I just
listened to, the hotkey is supposed to be symbols and space.
Does this work for you or anyone else reading this? I've tried holding
down
the symbols key and then pressing the space bar as well as hitting the
symbols key followed by the space bar but neither method seems to do the
trick.
Is this info accurate and if so has anyone gotten this to work? Thanks.
Best,
Rick
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Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 3:12 PM
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Subject: [vi-kindle] Re: Questions about options while reading a Kindle
book?
Yes it does. I use those navigation features a lot. The only time you
have
to turn text to speech off is when you're moving back or forward through
pages, but otherwise those navigation features work with speech on. Hope
that helps.
On Aug 7, 2012, at 11:31 AM, Russ Kiehne wrote:
Reading the manual, are all of the following options available while tts
is on?
Go to... - allows you to move to another location in the item you are
reading. Choose one of these options:
table of contents - takes you to the table of contents (if available)
for the item you are reading. This option is dimmed if a table of
contents
is not available.
cover - takes you to the cover page of the item you are reading. This
is usually the cover of the book.
beginning - takes you to the beginning of the book. This is usually
the first chapter, but may be a foreword, the table of contents, or some
other location.
end - takes you to the end of the book. From here, you can rate the
book, see other recommended books, and share your reading progress with
your social networks.
page - enter a page number to jump to in the content, and then select
this
option.
Press the Symbol key to enter numbers.
location - enter a location number to jump to in the content, and then
select this
option. Press the Symbol key to enter numbers.
