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How to turn it on

1. Open a book in the Kindle app.
2. Tap the screen, then tap the Aa (reading settings) icon.
3. Choose More, then turn on Assistive Reader.
4. Tap the screen to show the player controls and press play.

What to know

• Works only with books that have Enhanced Typesetting enabled.
• Uses your device text-to-speech engine, so the book language must be one your device supports.
• Playback pauses when you open menus or create a note.

How to turn it on

1. Open a book in the Kindle app.
2. Tap the screen, then tap the Aa (reading settings) icon.
3. Choose More, then turn on Assistive Reader.
4. Tap the screen to show the player controls and press play.

What to know

• Works only with books that have Enhanced Typesetting enabled.
• Uses your device text-to-speech engine, so the book language must be one your device supports.
• Playback pauses when you open menus or create a note.

How to turn it on

1. Open a book in the Kindle app for Mac.
2. Open reading settings (Aa), choose More, then turn on Assistive Reader.
3. Use the on-screen player controls to start listening.

What to know

• Works only with books that have Enhanced Typesetting enabled.
• The book language must be supported by the text-to-speech engine on macOS.

How to turn it on

1. Open a book in the Kindle app.
2. Tap the screen, then tap the Aa (reading settings) icon.
3. Choose More, then turn on Assistive Reader.
4. Tap the screen to show the player controls and press play.

What to know

• Works only with books that have Enhanced Typesetting enabled.

What to know

• What Windows offers instead is screen-reader support: Narrator (built into Windows 11), NVDA 2017.1 or later, and JAWS. Those read the interface, not a comfortable book-listening experience.

How to turn it on

1. Pair a Bluetooth speaker or Bluetooth headphones with your Kindle.
2. Turn on VoiceView from accessibility settings.
3. Navigate with VoiceView gestures — the screen reader speaks what is on screen.

What to know

• Modern e-ink Kindles have no speaker and no headphone jack, so a Bluetooth audio device is mandatory.
• VoiceView over Bluetooth is available in only 6 languages: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish.
• VoiceView is a screen reader built for blind and low-vision users, not a "read my book to me" feature — it also announces interface elements.
• Older models without Bluetooth need the discontinued Kindle Audio Adapter.

What to know

• There is no built-in read-aloud button to find — this is not a setting you have missed.
• Cloud Reader renders book text with custom subset fonts whose character mappings are scrambled. Your eyes see correct words because the font remaps them; anything reading the page text sees jumbled characters.
• That is why a browser extension has to read the rendered page visually (OCR) rather than copy the text.

What to know

• The narrated version is a separate purchase, sometimes at a reduced Whispersync price.
• Only a subset of Kindle books has a matching Audible edition.