Amazon D00701 Manual De Usuario

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KINDLE USER’S GUIDE 4

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 EDITION

2.   Move the 5-way down so that “turn on” is underlined. Press the 5-way to select.  

In a few moments, you will hear your content spoken aloud. You can either 
listen to it through the Kindle’s external speakers or plug in earphones into the 
headphone jack.

3.   By default, content is spoken with a male voice, but using the 5-way, you can select 

a female speaking voice. You can also slow down or increase the rate of speech  
as well as pause or turn off Text-to-Speech

4.   While Text-to-Speech is playing, the screen will update to the corresponding page 

of text. 

For PDF files and books which the rights holder does not allow Text-to-Speech to read 

aloud, Text-to-Speech will be grayed out and you will not be able to select it.

By default, Text-to-Speech starts reading at the beginning of the page currently 

displayed. To start reading at a particular spot, move the cursor where you’d like the 
reading to begin before starting Text-to-Speech.

 You can also play or stop Text-to-Speech by holding down the Shift key