[NBLUG/talk] Electronic format to audio

[Chris Wagner]

I should add that I've had experience dealing with these issues
personally and can probably help a bit more as needed.  Feel free to
contact me off-list and we can discuss things in detail and work towards
a complete solution.  Your grandmother will probably want to be as
independent as possible in this and may not be interested in using the
computer if it requires help every time she wants to read a book.

As Ron Wickersham just pointed out, Gnome offers excellent accessibility
software for users with limited vision, generally using  Gnopernicus.
The screen reading and screen magnification features are quite useful.

I'm going to start looking for my notes on the Accessibility in Linux
talk that I gave awhile back, I originally promised to put these up on
the web, but never got around to it.

- Chris Wagner

-----Original Message-----
From: talk-bounces at nblug.org [mailto:talk-bounces at nblug.org] On Behalf
Of Chris Wagner
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 3:00 PM
To: General NBLUG chatter about anything Linux, answers to
questions,etc.
Subject: RE: [NBLUG/talk] Electronic format to audio

Hi Jack.  Festival is the de facto TTS (text-to-speech) engine under
Linux.  This looks like a good link:

http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2006/01/festival-text-to-speech-synthesis.
html

- Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: talk-bounces at nblug.org [mailto:talk-bounces at nblug.org] On Behalf
Of Jack Smith
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 2:17 PM
To: talk at nblug.org; wlug
Subject: [NBLUG/talk] Electronic format to audio

My mother's eyesight has just gone much worse, suddenly, and she can no
longer read.  If we can find electronic books, is there anything in
Linux to convert them to audio?  I'll look myself, but often somebody
already knows the answer I'm looking for. 

Thanks,
Jack





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