audio books or books read using kindle or the like "text to speech"

Hi there, 🙂

Recently I have been considering looking into resources for audio books as my daughter loves them. But then I just heard about this feature on kindles (and I am guessing ipads and/or other readers and tablets) called text to speech where it can read print books you have downloaded on the unit.  I don’t have a kindle or ipad or anything like that, but that sounds like a pretty nifty and perhaps handy feature.  Of those of you who have this technology, is it really useful? Can the text to speech read any book you give it?  Does it sound clear or no?  Is it a boring voice?  Is it better to go with audio books where real actors read with enthusiasm and voice changes or is the text to speech good too?  If it is handy, is there any certain features that are good to have that one unit may use where another unit wouldn’t (like a kindle better at it than an ipad)? Thank you for any help!