Kindle's text-to-speech feature voiced by "Tom"?
By Laura June 
posted Feb 20th 2009 11:28AM
posted Feb 20th 2009 11:28AM
posted Feb 20th 2009 11:28AM
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You will listen to your book whilst slowly brainwashed into Scientology...
Scientology is the future of brainwashing pseudo-religions.
Nooooooooooooo!!
I won't buy a Kindle, now.
No Shit!! I used to did Tom Cruise in MI movies etc. but after hearing all his silly BS I knida don't give a hoot about him anymore. And Valkrye Sucked with him in it, should have cast someone else for the role, the movie wasn't what you'd have though.....I won't spoil it though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFBZ_uAbxS0
Where is the obvious L.Ron Hubbard shop onto the kindle?
/me thinks the photoshop department is slacking off
I was thinking the same about the Photoshop job, but then again I doubt anyone really expects a real picture of Tom with a Kindle!
the only book it plays is "Dianetics"
Great I wanted one but if Tom will be reading to me I wouldn't want to be subconciesly convinced that Scientology is a better way of life.
as Ridiculous as Scientology sounds, alot of you in here - and I won't name names - believe there is an invisible man living in the sky surrounded by invisible people with Wings... and if you don't do exactly what the invisibile man says and obey his 10 missing rules in the missing ark of the covenant, that he will send you to a place of fire where you will scream and burn and choke and cry for all of eternity...
but he loves you...
Religion aside, at least the Kindle comes with an E METER.
Blah-de-fucking blah we shouldn't even be talking about Scientology but since we are. Scientology and Christianity aren't even in the same ball-park. Scientology is not a religion and in fact touted themselves as a "non-religion" for years, and the only reason that they call themselves one is to get out of paying taxes. Do a little research instead of talking out of your ass.
But Fred, while Scientology and Christianity are not exactly the same thing (in the way that Judaism and Christianity are not the same thing) they ARE both religions - they both require you to accept fantastic stories, morals and propositions purely on faith (i.e. without evidence or reason); they both purport the existence of entities that - to the sceptical among us - are *equally* outrageous and unlikely; and they both are organisations that survive due to financial input from their members.
So they are in the same ball park! It is only to members of one of the two groups, that they appear dissimilar.
where is the Morgan Freeman voice!?
Where is the Morgan Freeman voice!?
or Sir Sean Connery.
You mean this, right?
http://xkcd.com/462/
YES! Morgan Freeman would be cool, NOT Sean Connery though, that would get old i think.
At least it's not William Shatner's.
Well, you're sitting on a gold mine, Trebek!
I would pay anything for a Kindle voiced by Christopher Walken.
Dianetics!!
Much better than Krishna.
Now to throw this voice tech into a holographic interface and it should be loads of fun. If they make these able to talk back and respond with sync I think if I leave my personal laptop next to my work desktop they will be good friends.
Tom doesn't give that creepy robot feeling so it should be good.
Replace Scientogist with Jew and ask yourself if you'd still post the above comments.
I don't know why Scientoligists believe what they believe but it makes about as much sense to me as any other organized religion out there.
Replace Hubbard with Fiddler on the Roof.
Yeah, i'd still post the same comment.
/no religion is sacred, not a one, not even that one that noone will make fun of, you know, Kabala
Jew, Christian, Muslim, Budist, iTard etc...all the same BS.
All religions are creepy cults to me. But scientology is absolutely the worst combination of creepy and almost-mainstream.
it's all fun and games until someone takes a crack at the Jedi or Klingon Orthodox.
That is easy for you guys to say....
Fact is it is a fact that Scientology is made up... SciFi the opiate of the popular or something like that.
Whereas I believe my religion (you don't have to know my denomination just read the Bible KJV FTW!) was not made up.
@cb88: so since the human beings who wrote your holy book (the bible) are dead, and it happened a long time ago and we know very little about them secularly speaking, your religion is somehow more credible? Me thinks someone needs a healthy dose of objectivity.
Look religions (and even science, to a lesser degree) are belief systems that are all based upon what some man/woman said (or wrote) at some point in time. That doesn't mean they're right or wrong, but to poke fun at someone because their religion is more recent . . . is hypocritical at best.
@cb88
Now I think Scientology is a racket as well, but I'd say that those crazies probably believe that Scientology isn't made up either. For the sake of full disclosure, I think that Scientology and Christianity are both complete fabrications of the human mind.
@cb88: That is easy for you to say....
Fact is it is a fact that your religion is made up...
Whereas I believe my religion (Pastafarianism) was not made up. May Hisnoodly appendage caress you and make you believe in Him.
There's a difference between a money making cult which does an end-run around taxes, allows people to die under their care, and makes wild claims like psychology=nazi, and a church that sells pies to raise money for church-run social issues.
There's a difference between a cult that encourages/forces you to remove yourself from your friends and family, and a church that may not agree with you, but it does not keep it's members away from everyone.
Yes, they are both dealing with (IMO) made up shite, but one is a money making venture that harms people, and the other one is a venture that makes money in the process of trying to help people.
@cb88
"Bible KJV FTW"
The fact that you had to specify what VERSION of the bible you like should be enough to make you question your religion. Your book was put together by people picking and choosing what passages ought to be kept or left out. So is every religious text. So how is it not made up?
Thatens!
They should've used Pierce Brosnan
"Sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't read you that"
In before someone says something intelligent!
me too!
This is so not Tom Cruise :S
@AMiSH PiRATE im getting a distinctly non amish vibe off of you ;-) ... also do the amish like iPhones?
ah, you know the old story. I was raised Amish, moral structure devastated when I was pressed to service in the navy, deserted the service to become a pirate, blah blah blah. and no, we Amish folk rock rotary LG's.
Hmm, I wonder if many purchasers of the kindle are women, hence leading to the creation of "Tom".
That voice is MUCH better than I thought it would be. I think it even sounds better than the best voice in Mac OS X, too.
I was hoping for R. Kelly with some background vocals.
Why is Mr Tom's finger pointing up? Oh yeah, that's the one he sits on.
Anyone who divorces Nicole Kidman is a huge tool.
I thought it sounded pretty good, except for the creepy laugh at the end.
I might have nightmares now...
That doesn't sound anything like Tom Cruise. Actually the Kindle voice is not as stiff and reads better than Cruise. Perhaps in future Tom Cruise movies they and dub in the Kindle voice, that would be a big improvement for that mediocre actor.
The voice doesn't, but the laugh on the end totally does.
Tom's suit perplexes me. I don't know whether to be amazed, scared or just confused.
Let's hope the Kindle 2 is awesome. Eventually I'll stop killing trees and make the switch...
if this has anything to do with tom cruise, i will never buy from amazon again, and thats saying a lot!