Kindle Touch frame for text-to-speech by papergeek

Last crawled date: 3 years ago

For me, one of the "killer apps" for Kindle has been the text to speech feature. I spend enough time in the car commuting that I get a lot of "reading" done, and can carry forward in the other small snippets of spare time when I'm not driving or working.
The Kindle Touch is one of the few models remaining (or only) which does this. Starting and stopping playback by finding the right "buttons" is hard.
This frame fits snugly around the top and bottom of the device. The "telegraph keys" should accurately hit the spots to activate the menu, start text to speech, and stop text to speech. This makes it actually possible to stop it from reading totally without eye contact.
The "hoops" are meant to keep papers and other things I may put on the passenger seat from sliding over the touch screen (which uses IR interferometry and is thus triggered by the lightest touch from any random object). These are currently prone to break off (as shown in the gallery - this suffered a drop with the Kindle inside) but the unit can be used to hit the menu buttons without them.