Is there a quick and easy way to concert pdf 2 mpg3

Robert Jameson rj at dawnshosting.com
Thu May 12 01:21:10 UTC 2005


Offtopic: 

Woudlnt it be cool if someone wrote a firefox plugin to read text that
you highlighted and then right clicked "festival" or something. 

On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 19:45 -0400, Todd Slater wrote:
> Hi Rainer,
> 
> On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 11:29:58PM +0200, Rainer Gutkas wrote:
> > 
> > My sister told me of a Mac ispeakit which is able to convert pdf & text 
> > files to mp3's. Now I wondered if there is a quick and easy way to do 
> > this in linux, so I can listen to my techspecs at my way to work or 
> > learn how to use cups,.... etc by not reading but listening which suites 
> > me more. In fact in the moment I read documents aloud to remember the 
> > things I read. I think that could be a good way to improve my learning.
> 
> I don't know that there's an *easy* way, but I've done it with
> Festival's text2wave script. For pdf's you'd need something to convert
> it to text first, I believe. Obviously you then have to encode the wav
> to mp3 or ogg.
> 
> I wrote about it here:
> http://idea.zanestate.edu/archives/2004/06/if-it-can-read-a-web-page-why-not-a-journal-article/
> 
> and got the voice better here:
> http://idea.zanestate.edu/archives/2004/06/audio-part-ii/
> 
> HTH,
> Todd
> 
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Robert Jameson <rj at dawnshosting.com>






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