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    • Shiroi HaneS
      Shiroi Hane Premium Member @Terrence
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      @terrence how well does text-to-speech handle light novels? When I think how much the pronunciation in most (and especially Sentai) dubs annoys me...

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        Terrence Premium Member @Shiroi Hane
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        @shiroi-hane said in Google Play:

        @terrence how well does text-to-speech handle light novels? When I think how much the pronunciation in most (and especially Sentai) dubs annoys me...

        Well, let me test some sentences for ya. I use the British Google voice. I'll grab some sample sentences and then write out the text to speech's struggles phonetically. =P

        Edit: Can't find anything too crazy yet, but there's a line in Grimgar where Ranta yells "Heyyyyyyyyyyyyy"

        It reads it Ache Ee Whywhywhywhywhywhywhy

        Junko is pronounced Junk Oh, as opposed to June Ko.

        Akuto = Uh Koo Toe

        Yume = Yoo Mee

        Shihoru = Shee Hoe (as in hoh hoh hoh) Roo

        Kuzaku = Cuz (as in Cousin) Uhh Koo. =P

        Quick Wind Plains becomes Quick Whined Plains.

        "Yes Siree Bob" = Yes Sigh Erree Bob

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          Hyferzftw @Terrence
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          @terrence that's hilarious.

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            Village Idiot Premium Member @fukada_kirika
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            @ariared26 Depends. The images are good quality, but books cannot be downloaded onto your SD Card, so if you have a big LN collection and an 8-16gb internal storage space, you run into a real possibility of running out of HD space.

            You can of course rip out the DRM, store it on your SD Card and use an epub reader, but the method of doing so will not give you the HQ images and will be very low resolution.

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              fukada_kirika @Village Idiot
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              • Shiroi HaneS
                Shiroi Hane Premium Member @Terrence
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                @terrence this is the same Google British voice that pronounces Caerphilly as "carefully" ^^;

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                  Village Idiot Premium Member @fukada_kirika
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                  @ariared26 No, you cannot download them to SD Card. You have to rip out the DRM first but if you do, you'll get LQ images.

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                    chu354
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                    wow, kind of sad because i bought all my LN on Google play too.

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                      paulnamida
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                      you can always buy the premium ebooks and add them to google books

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                        chu354 @paulnamida
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                        @paulnamida

                        Wow, i can do that? i may have signup for membership $10 a month is ok for me. I only find this site by accident. still new here.

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                          MI3Guy Premium Member
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                          Worth noting:

                          In Firefox, you can shift right click or use an extension to save images from the web viewer.
                          Calibre has an ebook editor that lets you right click and replace an image file.

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                            paulnamida @chu354
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                            @chu-li yup, once I found out I stopped buying their amazon releases, google books is much more friendlier than kindle and the membership is totally worth it

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                            • TerrenceT
                              Terrence Premium Member
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                              JNC stuff on Google Play now!

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                                Terabyte
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                                Nice news!

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                                  Hyferzftw @Terabyte
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                                  @terabyte yeah I personally love google since it works in almost any device even my iPod XD. So now I can use that to download JNC series and not have to worry about not being able to read it if my iPod breaks.

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                                    Village Idiot Premium Member @Hyferzftw
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                                    @hyferzftw
                                    I really, really wish they allow you to put stuff in folders though.

                                    It's a nightmare to go through your series when you have 50+ of them.

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