Kindle 2 as 'news radio'

Amy Gahran on Pointeronline have recently published a piece on kindle 2 describing the potential use kindle 2 as a ‘news radio’:

….its text-to-speech function does a surprisingly decent job of reading news content aloud.

I currently subscribe to The Wall Street Journal on my kindle, and I’ve gotten in the habit of letting it read me some interesting articles as I go through my morning routine. I like it. The automated text-to-speech reader is a bit flat for fiction, narrative and essays that require significant emotional or rhetorical inflection — but it’s great for news. I’ve starting considering it my “robotic NPR.”…..

….it’s pretty cool to be able to have stories from WSJ.com read aloud to me while I cook my veggie pesto omelet, or articles from the newly online-only Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which I can quickly “Kindlfy” via the free Instapaper service……..

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