{"id":1038,"date":"2009-02-22T08:27:56","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T13:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2009-02-22T08:27:56","modified_gmt":"2009-02-22T13:27:56","slug":"more-kindle-2-talk-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=1038","title":{"rendered":"More Kindle 2 talk but&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kindle 2\u00c2\u00a0<em>talks<\/em> and apparently it exhibits this <a title=\"Kindle 2 Controversy\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=924\" target=\"_blank\">controversial<\/a> text-to-speech function\u00c2\u00a0in a voice similar to Tom\u00c2\u00a0Cruise&#8217;s. A rumor over at <a title=\"Engadget.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2009\/02\/20\/kindles-text-to-speech-feature-voiced-by-tom\/\" target=\"_blank\">Engadget.com<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0suggests it&#8217;s based on or was voiced by Cruise.<\/p>\n<p>You can find\u00c2\u00a0an analysis of Kindle 2&#8217;s voice <a title=\"Tom or Kindle2 or Tom?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kindleboards.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/meet-tom-the-kindle-text-to-speech-reader\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> at KindleBoards. Give it a listen. What do\u00c2\u00a0 you think?\u00c2\u00a0Is Amazon.com hoping the Top Gun will make Kindle 2 the Top Reader?\u00c2\u00a0Not if iPod has anything to <em>say<\/em> about it. <em>Yah<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-7668795789683211\";\n\/* ebookrumors1 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"8573945280\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 234;\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=eboorumo-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=26&#038;l=ur1&#038;category=kindle&#038;banner=1VW4WBP63FJN3CB2ETG2&#038;f=ifr\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" scrolling=\"no\" border=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kindle 2\u00c2\u00a0talks and apparently it exhibits this controversial text-to-speech function\u00c2\u00a0in a voice similar to Tom\u00c2\u00a0Cruise&#8217;s. A rumor over at Engadget.com\u00c2\u00a0suggests it&#8217;s based on or was voiced by Cruise. You can find\u00c2\u00a0an analysis of Kindle 2&#8217;s voice here at KindleBoards. Give it a listen. What do\u00c2\u00a0 you think?\u00c2\u00a0Is Amazon.com hoping the Top Gun will make Kindle &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=1038\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1049,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions\/1049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}