Can you download, listen to audio books on it (Such as from Audible.com)? Does it have anything comparable to text to speech?
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Yes, all you need to do is to download the audible app in google play. so easy and sounds great
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A fellow audiobook lover, yes it can be used to listen to audio books that's why I bought mine. The volume level on some of these tablets is not very good but with the ihome mini speaker it really did boost the volume, I find myself turning it down. I can literally listen to my audiobooks and hear them being read all over the house. If you're on the fence about purchasing go ahead and purchase I think you wil be pleasantly surprised, and if not return it Amazon makes returns very easy.
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It has built in speech to text for text messaging, web searches, email, onenote (for taking notes/dictation), etc. No need for even an app. Probably there are also apps for it but not sure.
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I don't use audible?, you can load mp3 audio books and they play just fine. So far the main complaint that I have about this player is the buttons are very sensitive and it's almost required to lock the controls out to listen to the whole story.
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I am no techie... but in using text to voice software in a special education classroom my understanding is that a TWAIN driver is necessary. We use the Kurzweil software. If the books you want to read are available in digital format there are several online services which make the conversion, readplease or perhaps pleaseread.com is an example. Good luck in achieving your goal.
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I have never used the Audiobook. For my mp3 downloads I had to get a converter from CNET. I just looked, there are two Audio book converters based on category selection. I'm not sure this will help but I hope it does. Always scan what you download first.
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I have not used it with audio books but I have for other audio, like music and video..... and it does enhance the sound a great deal.
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I took a quick look at the Audible site. I could be wrong because I don't know much about Audible, but it looks like you need an app to play the Audible books. So, I would agree that the answer is probably "no." This device plays mp3s and WAV files, and I think a few other formats.
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I do not think you are able to download audio books on this device. What you can do is move pictures and music files on the device and download any podcasts you may want. I hope this helps.
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Hi Jayne, I have not used for audio books but, I have downloaded audio lectures and bible studies, so I would think there would be no problemKathy
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Yes I believe so. I've never tried it but when I plug my J3 into the computer and open it there is an Audible file folder. I think when I purchased it there may have been a free audible trial in there but that was a couple years ago.
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It would be slow. Try read, write and gold version 11 program. You scan the pages and it converts it to speech.
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I've never downloaded audiobooks before, but I think it should work. It is a regular ipod, if you can download it you can play it.
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I had the same problem. There was absolutely nothing in the manual about how to enable text to speech. If you did not know the acronym ("TTS") and what that meant alongside the voices, you would never have guessed it. I love my unit, but was seriously disappointed with the poor documentation of the product. It is like so much tech doc these days: written BY the people who thoroughly understand the product's ins and outs and FOR the same sorts of readers (i.e., fellow knowers of the ins and outs)!
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Good question and I don't think I can answer it but can tell you my experience. I haven't been able to figure out how to use my Surface 2 to download books from audible.com AND upload those audiobooks to my underwater audio iPod. I have resorted to using my several years old Dell laptop just for this purpose but it's not going to last much longer and I need to try to figure out how to use my surface 2 to do this task. I don't use my iTunes account for any other purpose. But your question makes me wonder if perhaps it's not just me.
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I like to use the software from the library (OVERDRIVE) i have been able to download audiobooks, but they dont play !!!! checked the OVERDRIVE site and says it SamS tab only supports mp3 files.
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I downloaded it just because of habit. Then I just rolled back. The download wasn't necessary for me for what I wanted to do. It says it had a few minor bugs to fix like shuffling over a folder boundry or something, but I don't use that feature anyway. I believe that the firmware it ships with allows you to play audible. I have listened to a few audible books so I know it works. I have firmware 2.51.