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Posted 23 July 2016
Free audio version of any Kindle book with Kindle app on iOS
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So technically this isn't a freebie, but a workaround that gets Siri to read the book for you.
Here's what you have to do:
1) go to settings > general > accessibility > speech and enable "speak screen"
2) navigate to the Kindle app and open the book you'd like Siri to read to you
3) swipe down with two fingers and Siri will start reading to you. You can adjust speed and skip paragraphs in a new overlay that will pop up. You can swap voices in the accessibility > speech settings pane.
What's especially incredible is that you can navigate to other apps by pressing the home button and Siri will automatically turn pages for you too.
While punctuation is sometimes ignored by Siri between paragraphs, this is still cheaper than purchasing the audiobook outright.
I hope this can be helpful to some of you who use Kindle on iPhone or iPad and find listening to books easier. I also hope that I'm not the last one discovering this workaround, in which case, be kind!
By the way, this also works for The Guardian app.
This was tested and works on iPhone and iPad running iOS 9.3.3
Here's what you have to do:
1) go to settings > general > accessibility > speech and enable "speak screen"
2) navigate to the Kindle app and open the book you'd like Siri to read to you
3) swipe down with two fingers and Siri will start reading to you. You can adjust speed and skip paragraphs in a new overlay that will pop up. You can swap voices in the accessibility > speech settings pane.
What's especially incredible is that you can navigate to other apps by pressing the home button and Siri will automatically turn pages for you too.
While punctuation is sometimes ignored by Siri between paragraphs, this is still cheaper than purchasing the audiobook outright.
I hope this can be helpful to some of you who use Kindle on iPhone or iPad and find listening to books easier. I also hope that I'm not the last one discovering this workaround, in which case, be kind!
By the way, this also works for The Guardian app.
This was tested and works on iPhone and iPad running iOS 9.3.3
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sorted byI agree it's not as good as a proper audio book, but it's not as bad as Siri used to be - especially if you pick an "enhanced" voice
I wasn't sure if it already did work on android. Sorry to hear it doesn't. Does it work on kindle fire?
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Yea, I thought so too, still not a reason to get one
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Sadly, the quality of the speech is not very good, obviously because the machine doesn't understand the content.