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Gary_7vn
11/10/09

In reply to The Intel Reader Photographs Text and Reads it Back to You
The copyright, drm, freaks are NOT going to like this device. How long before they want money for every "performance"? #intelreaderebooktexttospeech
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Bokusatsu_Tenshi
11/10/09

In reply to The Intel Reader Photographs Text and Reads it Back to You
Well, since Jack Bauer is saying it, I'll have to buy one.
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beercheck
11/10/09

In reply to The Intel Reader Photographs Text and Reads it Back to You
Now, get it to translate. #intelreaderebooktexttospeech
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Odin
11/10/09

In reply to The Intel Reader Photographs Text and Reads it Back to You
One has to question how effectively the device could be used by the visually impaired. It looks like it has a text based menu system (though presumably it could read menu options aloud) and those controls don't look like they have braille on them. Plus there's the question of how well blind people can aim a camera at a page for effective text capture. Lets just hope they tested all those factors. #intelreaderebooktexttospeech
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seanerone
05/15/09

In reply to Publisher Blocking Kindle Text-to-Speech
it's a fucking book people!!! If you wanted to have it read to you, get an audio book. You're talking two different mediums here, and the fact that they are being passed off as interchangeable is troublesome at best. That's like throwing a shit fit when you movie-adaption novel isn't included in your DVD purchase. If you can't read a book, you're already too lazy, top whining
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ub
05/15/09

@seanerone: Some of the most vocal critics of this decision are the blind and vision-impaired. Not so much lazy, just desiring access.
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zenpoet
05/15/09

@ub: @ub: Damn those blind people and their desire to read. I can't believe how lazy they are, what with the not having eyeball implants sent back from the future so they can see, and then just buying a book like the rest of us.

Next I suppose we will have stupid people on the internet complaining loudly when they don't actually understand the issue.
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LuckyFink
05/15/09

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I'm sorry, but the Kindle really seems like nothing more than masturbation for gadget freaks who are avid readers.
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mpjohnst
05/15/09

@LuckyFink: I'm with D.E.P.C. We should start an Gizmodo wide ab-libs with the following:

I'm sorry, but ___________ really seems like nothing more than masturbation for gadget freaks who are avid ___________.
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
05/15/09

@mpjohnst: Hrm, let's try this.

"I'm sorry, but mpjohnst really seems like nothing more than masturbation for gadget freaks who are avid commenters. "
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OMG! Ponies!
05/15/09

In reply to Publisher Blocking Kindle Text-to-Speech
Stephen King this week on eBooks:

"My sense is that most of them [people who download pirated eBooks] live in basements floored with carpeting remnants, living on Funions and discount beer."

Mr. King has gotten rather uppity in the years since he was just a scraggly-bearded bucktoothed creep from Bangor, ME.
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
05/15/09

@OMG! Ponies!: Or, he's just reminiscing about his days in the basement writing books.

And when did he stop being a scraggly-bearded bucktoothed creep from Bangor, ME?
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frigg
05/08/09

In reply to NYT: 'Newspaper-Saving' Redneck Kindle Can't Pronounce President's Name
So if the Kindle has a problem pronouncing "Barak Obama" the first time it sees it, that makes the Kindle not unlike the average American. I wonder if the Kindle also happens to think Barak Obama is a muslim?
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DeLarge
05/08/09

In reply to NYT: 'Newspaper-Saving' Redneck Kindle Can't Pronounce President's Name
English is not my native language, so is interesting to found that Americans (never been in England, so I don't have an opinion there) take so many liberties about English pronunciation, and I don't mean accents or slang.

Twenty pronounced "tweny", Forty = "fory", Wednesday = "Wensday", island = "iland", party = "pary"

What is wrong with you people? English is easier to learn than Spanish or French because it has a lot less verb tenses. But now I have to learn to learn to ignore, add, replace or misplace letters because the locals do?
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weatherman
05/08/09

@DeLarge: and I suppose you pronounce it WEDnesday? or ICEland?

We are a country of liberties, and that applies to our language as well. We don't speak tea-and-crumpets English, we speak 'merican. And that's what makes this country great.
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weatherman
05/08/09

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I gave up on the TTS a long time ago. My penchant for international news and science fiction proved to be an unpronounceable selection.

I do like the idea of the TTS though, and I hope they update the software at some point to give it a better pronunciation dictionary and a more realistic voice. It's a cool idea, and it would be even better if they included it in the iPhone app too.
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GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked
05/08/09

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How about Barry Husein?
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rockhopper
05/08/09

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News readers (not just anchors) with 6 figure salaries mispronounce words all the time. All the time. You'd think they would put a little effort into their craft.

So how do you actually pronounce Herzegovina? Or how about something "simple" like Beijing? How is it possible to make 6 figures and not pronounce words correctly? Wait, big hair right?
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OMG! Ponies!
05/08/09

@rockhopper:

"HAIR-tze-GO-vee-nuh" and "BAY-jeen"
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OMG! Ponies!
05/08/09

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How does the text-to-speech feature pronounce FAILURE?

$500 for Kindle DX plus $14/month for newspaper = too much money.
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Serolf Divad
04/23/09

In reply to The Kindle 2 and iPod Shuffle Perform Blade Runner
The Kindle was pretty decent. Not sure I'd want it to read a whole book to me, but it might be OK for e-mails.
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
04/23/09

In reply to The Kindle 2 and iPod Shuffle Perform Blade Runner
They're both replicants..
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nick's after the gnarly necter.. 800.
04/23/09

@Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: I still call bullshit on that, Scott decided not to make Deckard a replicant before the movie was released, then a decade later decided that it would have been cooler if he was and put in and started putting together the directors cut to imply it. retroooacctiivee hissstorryyyy
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
04/24/09

@nick800: True, but the scene re-enacted above didn't include Deckard.
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