Random House Threw the Kindle Text-to-Speech Kill Switch

One of the interesting features introduced with the Kindle 2 last month was the ability for the Kindle 2 to perform text-to-speech (TTS) on ebooks and read them out loud. There was a near immediate protest claiming that this would lead to all kinds of horrible consequences. Amazon responded by saying that it would provide the ability for this feature to be turned off selectively for individual ebooks. Well, according to Engadget, this TTS kill-switch has been thrown…