vBookz, the somewhat useful text-to-speech iPad app we’ve covered before, is now iPhone-ready. It doesn’t appear that many of our quibbles with the app have been rectified since we examined vBookz’s previous iteration, but the robotic narrator is now pocketable.
After an acrimonious decision earlier this year to let authors determine text-to-speech availability in their e-books, Amazon has vowed to roll out new Kindle features for blind and vision-impaired readers in 2010. According to a post on their site, the updates include audible menus and a new super size font for easier navigation. [Amazon]