mp3s or oggs of Ubuntu docs

[Matt A]

Hello

  This is Matt A wow not noon yet and bad day already I forgot the password
on my other email can't get it back for five days. :( So i just rejoined
using my other email come on five days :| Well anyway I read the archive
here is how I made the audio book of the ubuntu packaging guide.

1. Download the pdf
2. Cut and paste each chapter into its own text file (Chapter 3 needed two
but who cares)
3. Do some minor edits (add an intro note remove Table of Contents
typographical conventions etc)
4. text2wave each file separately ( crashed when i did it all at once )
5. Lame encode each wav
6. deleted wavs (kept textfiles in case i needed to redo something)
7. made an m3u so i could just push a button when i wanted to hear the book
8. Make a tarball and put it on my thumb drive for backup

Took about 3 hours all told the resulting tarball was 20.1MB here are my
notes on the final product
* Page numbers are real annoying remove
* Hyperlinks go by kinda fast <maybe gather them all at the end so people
can hear them again>
* The default voice is kinda hard to understand <maybe a female voice would
work better>

There that should give everyone the jist :) If anyone wants the tarball to
see how i did it let me know. I am thinking about doing all the official
stuff and maybe a snapshot the most popular wiki pages. But first thing
first gotta get that voice right.

Cheers
Matt A
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