Amazon's Jeff Bezos with a Kindle. Photo from The Sydney Morning HeraldFrom Live Science:
The latest version of Amazon's Kindle electronic book reader has a text-to-speech feature. The Kindle 2 can read a book or news out loud if you want; it uses a speech synthesizer to convert e-book text or a news article to spoken words. Science fiction writers, who have long predicted electronic books that talk, would say that it's about time.
How long ago did science fiction writers predict that people would prefer to have a machine read to them, rather than read the news themselves?
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