If you have a book that has Text to Speech enabled, activate it, then turn down the volume on your Kindle and watch the pages turn for you automatically. Press the Aa button if you want to adjust the speed.
The keyboard command to turn on Text to Speech is Shift+SYM. While holding down the Shift key (up arrow), press the SYM key once. This turns it off or on, and works on the Kindle 2 as well as the latest Kindle 3 and DX.
Another way to turn on (and off) Text to Speech is to press the Aa key. If the option is not available, the words Text to Speech will be greyed out.
Text-To-Speech Keyboard Shortcuts:
- Start or stop - Shift+SYM (shift key is the "up arrow")
- Pause text-to-speech - Spacebar
- Switch Between Male and Female Voices & Change Voice Speed - press the Aa button while it is playing, then use the 5-way to navigate to the option you want. Press in on the center button to make it happen.
- Start text-to-speech at specific point on a page - To begin the text-to-speech at a particular point on a page, move the cursor with your 5-way controller to the point just before you want the reading to begin.
