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The April 7, 2009 Authors Guild demonstration over Kindle text to speech

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

These are two pictures from the April 7, 2009 demonstration in front of the Authors Guild over text to speech in Kindle 2. Details about the issue and the demonstration are available here and here. The pictures were taken by Manon Ress, and may be used under any of the Creative Commons attribution licenses.

George Kerscher at the April 7, 2009 Kindle Demo, in NYC

Interview at Kindle demo, April 7, 2009, NYC

Kindle 2 and synthetic speech

Saturday, March 28th, 2009

I was asked by several disability groups to make a statement on the Kindle 2 dispute (see here, here, here, here, and here) regarding synthetic speech. (more…)