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- A full featured DAISY cd player for Linux

(Complete online manual)

Daisy-player is available in the following languages:

Rebubliek van Suid-Afrika Česká republika Deutschland

United Kingdom Reino de España Suomen tasavalta

République Française República de Guatemala Magyarország

Italia കേരളം Kerala Nederland

Kongeriket Norge Rzeczpospolita Polska República Portuguesa

русский Republika Slovenija Konungariket Sverige

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- 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)

(Complete online manual)

eBook-speaker is available in the following languages:

Repoeblika Balgarija Deutschland

United Kingdom Reino de España

Suomen tasavalta République française

Nederland República Portuguesa

Pe�y����a Cp��ja Republika Srbija Україна

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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.

Overview of TTS commands

- 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.

• TTS tools
• Mbrola Binary and Databases

- 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.