This is far too fiddly for my wife to use. I have installed OverDrive for RNIB talking books on my phone. If so, which tablet/which app? It needs a really simple interface or my wife will not be able to use it without assistance. A shop assistant suggested a tablet with a text-to-speech app. I thought of getting her a Kindle e-reader but they don’t seem to do text to speech any more. She can select TV channels on a remote but she cannot read a short news story let alone a novel, so she listens to the radio and watches a lot of TV.

Turned that off and deleted all the partial files that had been downloaded from troubleshooting, and was finally able to download the narration.My wife used to love reading but since her stroke has aphasia, no speech, limited vision and limited dexterity in her left hand only. I really appreciate the help.Įdit the Second: Audible support determined that the Samsung download booster feature (which uses wifi and cell signal at the same time to speed up downloads) was breaking the download. Big thanks to the two people that commented on this with suggestions. I'll email Audible support, per the comment below, and add another edit if they can figure anything out for me this time. One of those, Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson (which I'd previously read), is giving me the same problem. I also downloaded 3 other books (two I'd read before on this device, and one I hadn't). So, has anyone else experienced anything like this?Įdit: Just in case anyone is following this, I tried moving the app the my SD card, freeing up 10 GB of space on my internal device memory, and manually navigating to the save directory and deleting the file that had downloaded, but it's still not working.

I did contact Audible support, but it got escalated to second level and they just sent an email that they couldn't replicate the problem and closed my ticket. I've tried deleting and re-downloading the book, uninstalling/reinstalling the Kindle app, and unregistering the device, but it's still not working. It works on my cell phone and other tablet, just not on one of my devices (which, of course, is the device I most like to use). Has anyone had any issues with downloading the Audible narration for books in Kindle? I was trying to re-download a book (Words of Radiance, by Brandon Sanderson) on my tablet, and it will let me click to download, but after the download completes instead of letting me play the narration, it just prompts me to download it again.

Why is kindle narration not working