Problems with Speak Selection/Text-to-Speech for Kindle App

Kindle just put out an update to the app that says

"We fixed an issue with Speak Screen compatibility - now narration no longer skips paragraphs."

I'm guessing because y'all contacted Kindle and more importantly y'all wrote feedback online, Kindle fixed it. Simply calling tech support tends to have less affect on change.

I just noticed the same problem. I use a combination of the "Speak Selection" command in Siri with Kindle on my phone while I read simultaneously on my 55" plasma. It doubles my retention of the material.

Anyway, when "Speak Selection" started skipping after the last update (don't know if if was the IOS or Kindle update that did it), I had to resort to different means.

I to to Settings: General: Accessibility and set up Voice Over for voice and speed. Then I go to where I want to begin reading in Kindle. From there I give Siri the command "Turn Voice Over On," followed by the command "Open Kindle." From there, a double finger swipe down and I'm listening to my book with no skipping. Sometimes it stops on a picture, but all I have to do is reswipe. I prefer "Speak Selection" because of its mini control panel, but this will do for now.

l checked for an update on the App Store last night and there was one for Kindle. When I looked at the notes saying what the update would do it said it would fix this problem!!!! And it did!!!!! Thank you so much! Squeaky wheel gets the grease!!!!

I tried troubleshooting with Kindle support with no resolution (chat and voice call). The tech said he would note it for correction in the next revision... The revision that I am having issue with is 6.4. As info version 6.1 that is currently on an older device seems to work fine.

I did email Amazon/Kindle Customer Service. I received this response “I would like to inform you that most of the customers are experiencing this issue in skipping the Speak Screen (voice reader) function on Kindle for iOS, I've reported this to our technical team, and they're working on taking care of it. These errors are usually corrected shortly after they're reported.” He went on to suggest using VoiceOver in the meantime & gave instructions, which we’ve already learned. It may speed the process along if others do this as well.

Just got off the phone with Amazon. He said that it was definitely a Kindle app problem. Put in a help ticket and said that it would take a week but that they will get it resolved. If they don’t, feel free to keep nagging them. Or if more people called them, maybe they will expediate the process.

Great solution PastorHeart!

If you allow me to iterate, you can use the Accessibility Shortcut instead of calling Siri.

Go to Settings > General > Accessibilty > Accessibility Shortcut. Move VoiceOver to the top and select it.

Now you can just tripple click the home button to turn it on/off making much easier to start

I’m pretty sure this is a problem with the latest Amazon app update and not Apple. My mobi files work just fine with the text-o-speech feature, but the AMZ3 files are the ones that skip paragraphs/pages. I’m looking to see if there are any threads on this problem over at Amazon.

Report a bug either at Apple.com/feedback or Kindle.

What EVERYONE needs to do is submit FEEDBACK at www.apple.com/feedback so that Apple can fix it. They will listen if there are lots of the same complaint.

"If" you switch to any other app or even press the Home button, text-to-speech will require you restart the process with he 2-finger swipe. Are you, by chance, leaving the Kindle page when this happens?

Kindle Sr. tech assures me it was not Kindle that changed. With a recent update, Apple seems to be steering people from Kindle to iBooks where text to speech works fine. Ask Kindle. Apple techs will try to make it work for you. It seems Apple didn't tell their techs that they broke the s/w.

I have also had the same problem with both ibooks and kindle. At first, I thought it the problem was just with the Kindle app, but after testing with an ibooks pdf, it seems the problem is more widespread. I'm not sure how this problem can be fixed (app side or text-to-speech side) but I hope this issue is resolved soon! I have books to read! 😟

Same problem. Only started occurring today after I updated the app. Pretty clear that it is an app issue.