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- A full featured
DAISY
cd player for Linux
Daisy-player is available in the following languages:
Deutschland |
Suomen tasavalta |
Magyarország |
Nederland |
República Portuguesa |
Konungariket Sverige
|
Please help the blind and visually impaired in your country and translate daisy-player
- read aloud eBooks, text documents or scanned
documents using a software speech-synthesizer.
Many eBook formats are supported. eBook-speaker also tries
to read scanned documents through Optical Character
Recognition (OCR).
Supported formats
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AportisDoc (.pdb) (.prc)
AppleSingle encoded Macintosh ASCII mail text ASCII text (.txt) awk script text BBeB_ebook_data (.lrf) Bourne-Again shell script text Broadband eBooks (BBeB) (.lrf) (.lrx) C source text Composite Document File (Microsoft Office Word) (.doc) (.xls) DAISY3 DTBook EPUB ebook data (.epub) GIF image data (.gif) GNU gettext message catalogue GutenPalm zTXT HTML document (.html) ISO-8859 text (.txt) JPEG image data (.jpg) Microsoft Office Document Microsoft Reader eBook Data (.lit) Microsoft Windows Autorun file Microsoft Windows HtmlHelp Data (.chm) Microsoft Word Document |
Microsoft Word 2007+ (.docx)
Mobipocket E-book (.prc) (.mobi) MS Windows HtmlHelp Data (.chm) Netpbm PPM data (.ppm) OpenDocument Text (.odt) Pascal source PDF document (.pdf) PeanutPress PalmOS (.pdb) Perl script text Plucker PalmOS document (.pdb) PNG image data (.png) POSIX shell script text PostScript document (.ps) Python script Rich Text Format (.rtf) Tenex C shell script text troff or preprocessor text (e.g. Linux man-pages) UTF-8 Unicode mail text UTF-8 Unicode text WordPerfect (.wp) XML document text (.xml) |
eBook-speaker is available in the following languages:
Deutschland |
Reino de España |
République française |
República Portuguesa |
Україна |
Please help the blind and visually impaired in your country and
translate
eBook-speaker
TTS Examples
Here are some examples of how to use different TTS's in
eBook-speaker and how they sound.
There are two possibilities of how to add a TTS to eBook-speaker.
- start eBook-speaker with a TTS as argument.
ebook-speaker your_book.epub -t "TTS command"
This is a one-time solution.
Note that the TTS command must be given between quotes '"'.
- When eBook-speaker already is running, press the 't' key to
bring up a TTS selector.
Select a TTS from the menu.
To add a TTS command permanently to eBook-speaker,
one has to edit the ~/.eBook-speaker.xml file by hand.
Sample | TTS command |
---|---|
- Acapela (Daan) | |
- Acapela (Jasmijn) | |
- Acapela (Zoe) | |
- Cepstral (Allison) | swift -n Allison -f eBook-speaker.txt -m text -o eBook-speaker.wav |
- Cepstral (Allison) (hacked with SoX) | swift -n Allison -f eBook-speaker.txt -m text -o /tmp/cepstral.wav && sox /tmp/cepstral.wav eBook-speaker.wav trim 8.0 |
- Cepstral (Amy) | swift -n Amy -f eBook-speaker.txt -m text -o eBook-speaker.wav |
- Cepstral (Amy) (hacked with SoX) | swift -n Amy -f eBook-speaker.txt -m text -o /tmp/cepstral.wav && sox /tmp/cepstral.wav eBook-speaker.wav trim 6.2 |
- Cepstral (Callie) | swift -n Callie -f eBook-speaker.txt -m text -o eBook-speaker.wav |
- Cepstral (Emily) | swift -n Emily -f eBook-speaker.txt -m text -o eBook-speaker.wav |
- Cepstral (Emily) (hacked with SoX) | swift -n Emily -f eBook-speaker.txt -m text -o /tmp/cepstral.wav && sox /tmp/cepstral.wav eBook-speaker.wav trim 7.2 |
- Cepstral (Lawrence) | swift -n Lawrence -f eBook-speaker.txt -m text -o eBook-speaker.wav |
- Cepstral (Linda) | swift -n Linda -f eBook-speaker.txt -m text -o eBook-speaker.wav |
- Cepstral (Linda) (hacked with SoX) | swift -n Linda -f eBook-speaker.txt -m text -o /tmp/cepstral.wav && sox /tmp/cepstral.wav eBook-speaker.wav trim 7.1 |
- Cepstral (Millie) | swift -n Millie -f eBook-speaker.txt -m text -o eBook-speaker.wav |
- Cepstral (Millie) (hacked with SoX) | swift -n Millie -f eBook-speaker.txt -m text -o /tmp/cepstral.wav && sox /tmp/cepstral.wav eBook-speaker.wav trim 6.9 |
- Cepstral (Robin) | swift -n Robin -f eBook-speaker.txt -m text -o eBook-speaker.wav |
- Cepstral (Robin) (hacked with SoX) | swift -n Robin -f eBook-speaker.txt -m text -o /tmp/cepstral.wav && sox /tmp/cepstral.wav eBook-speaker.wav trim 7.1 |
- Cepstral (William) | swift -n William -f eBook-speaker.txt -m text -o eBook-speaker.wav |
- Cepstral (William) (hacked with SoX) | swift -n William -f eBook-speaker.txt -m text -o /tmp/cepstral.wav && sox /tmp/cepstral.wav eBook-speaker.wav trim 7.1 |
- Espeak (english) | espeak -f eBook-speaker.txt -w eBook-speaker.wav |
- Espeak (english) (MBrola) | espeak -f eBook-speaker.txt -w eBook-speaker.wav -v mb-en1 |
- Espeak (nederlands) | espeak -f eBook-speaker.txt -w eBook-speaker.wav -v nl |
- Espeak (nederlands) (MBrola) | espeak -f eBook-speaker.txt -w eBook-speaker.wav -v mb-nl2 |
- Flite (english) | flite eBook-speaker.txt eBook-speaker.wav |
- Pico2wave (english/GB) | pico2wave -l=en-GB -w=eBook-speaker.wav "`cat eBook-speaker.txt`" |
- Pico2wave (english/US) | pico2wave -l=en-US -w=eBook-speaker.wav "`cat eBook-speaker.txt`" |
- Text2wave (english) | text2wave eBook-speaker.txt -o eBook-speaker.wav |
- Text2wave (MBrola) (english) | text2wave -eval '(voice_en1_mbrola)' eBook-speaker.txt -o eBook-speaker.wav |
- Text2wave (MBrola) (nederlands) | text2wave -eval '(voice_nl2_mbrola)' eBook-speaker.txt -o eBook-speaker.wav |
- Google_speech | trans -b nl:nl -i eBook-speaker.txt -speak -player "mpg123 -w eBook-speaker.wav" -o /dev/null -e google -no-auto |
- Bing_speech | trans -b nl:nl -i eBook-speaker.txt -speak -player "mpg123 -w eBook-speaker.wav" -o /dev/null -e bing |
- Reads Arabic numerals from standard input and converts them into English or Dutch.
The English version:
Copyright © 1988, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California.
- This is a program to split audio-files, in cdr-format, at a certain point.
- A small, fast speech synthesis engine
- A good, but slow speech synthesizer.
Festival Speech Synthesis System
Copyright © University of Edinburgh, 1996,1997.
All rights reserved.
- Mbrola related speech synthesizers (English, French, Spanish, German)
- Braille Display Under LINUX
- The international consortium for the new digital talking book standard.
- Een innovatief hulpmiddel voor mensen met een visuele handicap.
De ORIONWebbox is een compact apparaat waarmee u gesproken
leesmateriaal op basis van een abonnement kunt beluisteren.
Het biedt u de mogelijkheid om, wanneer het u uitkomt, te
luisteren naar bijvoorbeeld gesproken boeken, kranten en tijdschriften
of naar informatieve programma's. Ook kunt u direct over het
laatste ANP-nieuws en de krant van vandaag beschikken.
Niet alleen leesmateriaal, maar ook
hoorspelen
en gesproken televisieondertiteling behoren tot de mogelijkheden!
- Jos and Aldo's Audio-CD player/recorder script
- Interview in C'T in juni 1999.
- Interview met Chip in september 2003.
- Interview met Livre in oktober 2005.