I have converted a book in text format to MP3 using my Open Book once. It took a while to finish, but not an unreasonable while. I never bothered to do it again, though, because my Stream reads text perfectly well.
_ _ _"Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least." - Eugene V. Debs
The Militant: http://www.themilitant.com Pathfinder Press: http://www.pathfinderpress.com Granma International: http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html----- Original Message ----- From: "Ali Al-Hajamy" <aalhajamy@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2010 1:38 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT listening to DAISY books
hi,I don't personally do this, but I think that, in theory, it could work quite nicely. If you happen to have a good SAPI5 voice on your computer, though I think this works with SAPI4 as well, there is a free and portable program out there called DSpeach which will save text files as MP3, WAV, or OGG files which can, of course, be copied over to any portable device which plays these formats. So, one could, if they wanted to, copy and paste the text of the book into a text file, open it in DSpeach, save it in any of the formats previously mentioned, and thus have an audio copy. I don't know how long it will take, and of course the length of time will fluctuate depending on the length of the book, but the few times I've done it have been very quick.----- Original Message ----- From: "Jill O'Connell" <jillocon@xxxxxxxxxxx>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, August 13, 2010 16:42 Subject: [bksvol-discuss] OT listening to DAISY booksI would be very interested to know how those of you who do not read braille, listen to your Bookshare books, particularly in a portable form so you don't have to remain tethered to your computer. I believe the general opinion that doing this with the Victor Stream voices is very unsatisfactory. I understand that converting to MP3 from Kurzweil is a possibility, but is anyone doing so in other ways. As this is somewhat OT, you can contact me off list at jillocon@xxxxxxxxxxxx Thank you so much for taking the time to reply.To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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