How I Tricked My Brain To Like Doing Hard Things (dopamine detox) - Duration: 14:14. Better Than Yesterday Recommended for you. On a Mac, the shortcut is ⌘+r. Or when you have a resource open, you can simply click on the book cover icon to expose the menu options and then select Read Aloud. How to Make Your iPhone and iPad Read Text Aloud.
© Hollis Johnson/Business Insider With just a few simple taps, you can do text-to-speech on a Kindle Fire. Hollis Johnson/Business Insider- The Kindle app for Mac has it’s own Text to Speech (look under ‘Tools’), but there is no speed control, yet. Hopefully they are working on optimizing this function. There are also free text to speech or read aloud apps to simplify activating read aloud on Windows and Android devices.
- Kindle for PC (1.19.1 and above) supports NVDA 2017.1 or higher and JAWS screen reader on Windows computers. The Kindle for PC accessibility features provide the following functions: You can read aloud over 6 million titles in English and most titles available in other languages in the Kindle Store using screen reader technology.
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- You can enable the text-to-speech feature on your Kindle Fire device to have written content read aloud.
- Both Kindle content and your personal documents can utilize the text-to-speech feature.
- Text-to-speech inputs are also available for languages other than English and can be downloaded via the progress bar within the book itself.
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If you are vision-impaired or simply want to hear your book or document aloud rather than reading the text, Kindle Fire has a text-to-speech feature that will translate the written words to audio so you can listen aloud. Best of all, text-to-speech is not only available for Kindle books but also for many (though not all) personal text files.
Turning on text-to-speech is easy and should only take a few seconds. Books in the Kindle store will even notify you if the capability is available before you purchase, though the feature must be turned on within the book or document itself, where available. Once enabled, you can begin playing the audio immediately.
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How to enable text-to-speech on your Kindle Fire
1. On your Kindle Fire, open the book or document you wish you read.
2. In the upper right corner of the screen, tap the three vertically stacked dots to reveal a list of menu options.
3. Tap 'Additional settings.'
© Jennifer Still/Business Insider Under the three-dot menu, select 'Additional settings.' Jennifer Still/Business Insider4. Scroll down until you see the 'Text-to-Speech' option and toggle the button to the 'on' position, which will turn the toggle box orange.
© Jennifer Still/Business Insider Toggle the 'Text-to-Speech' button to the 'on' position. Jennifer Still/Business Insider5. Hit the 'back' button to return to your book.
6. To begin utilizing text-to-speech, tap the screen and then tap the play button at the bottom to begin hearing your book. Your book or document should then begin to be read aloud.
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Recently there are many people asked me can I read Kindle books on Mac and how to. It is really a little a waste of time to answer these questions one by one (of course it's also my honor to read them), so today I write this article in details for you about how to read Kindle books on Mac by 3 different ways. For reading Kindle books on PC, there are also three methods to read Kindle books on PC.
Method 1: Read Kindle Books with Kindle for Mac app
You don't need a Kindle device to read Kindle books. Here is a free app from amazon store that you can use on your Mac. Access to Amazon.com to get free Kindle for Mac app. Then download and install it on the Mac.
The Kindle books you bought from Amazon will appear in Kindle for Mac because of its sync function. Choose one and right click it. Then you can choose the option to read from the appeared menu.
This is the easiest way to read Kindle books on mac. But every coin has two sides. It also makes our eBook reading a little disappointed because we can only read Kindle on Kindle apps but not in iBooks. This is because these books are only bonded with Amazon Kindle store. It's forbidden to transfer downloaded books to Kindle for mac app with iTunes but only Send to Kindle. What's worse, the app can't read ePub books purchased from another eBooks stores.
So Method 2 or Method 3 may become your best choice.
Method 2: Read Kindle Books on Mac with iBooks
EPUB is one of the most common ebook formats (the other one is PDF) and Most e-readers support including Mac computer. Though there are many ePub readers we can use on the mac, but here I strongly recommend you use iBooks app to read ePub books as it is definitely the best reading app on the mac.
Kindle Read Aloud Android
1Transfer Kindle Books to Your Mac
With Kindle for Mac, you can see all Kindle books you bought. Right click the book and choose the download option. Then the book will be downloaded to your local folder.
Tips: Click 'Kindle' and Choose 'Preferences'. From the general window, you can see 'Content Folder' and the letters below is the address of your Kindle books stored. Find the books you downloaded in 'My Kindle Content' folder of your mac.
Except for the above way you also can use USB cable to collect your Kindle device with mac and transfer your books.
2Download & Install Epubor Ultimate on Mac
Most Kindle eBooks are protected with Kindle DRM. Kindle books has their own formats such as AZW3, AZW, Mobi, PRC, but not the common ePub format. Epubor Ultimate is the best DRM Removal + eBook Converter. Epubor Ultimate can also help us edit eBook metadata if we want. Just with this one tool you can also read Kindle books on iPad Pro, and read Kindle books on android.
3Decrypt & Convert Kindle Books
Open Epubor Ultimate, you can drag and drop Kindle books in it. After your Kindle books added, it will automatically remove the DRM from your selected Kindle eBooks. Then just choose the output format as ePub and click 'Convert to ePub' button. Wait for a moment and you can get the fresh ePub books from the pop-up window.
The best point of Epubor Ultimate is it can automatically identify books of devices or apps if you have opened Kindle for Mac app or your Kindle device has collected with your mac. You will see your kindle eBooks are listed in the left area after you get the Epubor Ultimate started. Select the books you want to convert to, then drag them from the left to the right area. You can also click '+Add' to load them.
4Read Converted Books in iBoooks
You can find your converted epub books at the output folder. Then right click, select 'open with iBooks', you will see your eBooks clearly listed in the library.
It also has another way to add books. Open your iBooks app, drag and drop the books you want to add. In the library, you can see them and right click the book to choose read option.
Method 3: Read Kindle Books on Mac with Adobe Digital Editions
1Transfer Kindle Books to Your Mac
This is a necessary step for you to transfer Kindle books to your mac. But how to achieve it. So here is the method.
2Decrypt & Convert Kindle Books to ePub
If we want to read books with Adobe Digital Editions, we must convert their formats to ePub. Learn the details of how to decrypt & convert Kindle books to ePub. After you do that, you can continue the next steps.
Read Aloud Extension
3Download & Install Adobe Digital Editions for Mac
You can check official Adobe to download it.
4Add Kindle Books to Adobe Digital Editions
Open Adobe Digital Editions for mac app. Drag and drop the converted books to Adobe Digital Editions. Right click the book and select the read option.
I hope this article has resolved your problems, and wish you have a nice reading on your mac. Or if you have other methods it will be nice of you to leave a comment.
Jonny Greenwood joined Epubor since 2011, loves everything about eBooks and eReaders. He seeks the methods to read eBooks more freely and wants to share all he has got with you.