

About a third of the way down, the option “Text-to-Speech (When available for the title)” will be switched off. Choose “Additional Settings” and a settings screen will open, with a number of toggle switches at the right. To activate text-to-speech, just open an e-book, then tap in the middle of the screen to open the toolbar interface, then tap on the three-dot icon at the upper right. Although it’s not enabled by default, it’s actually remarkably easy to turn on. As it happens, the Fire’s e-reading application does incorporate text-to-speech, a feature missing from the most recent models of e-ink Kindle.

If you bought the new Fire tablet when it was on sale for Black Friday, you might be wondering if you can have it read books aloud to you.
