[NBLUG/talk] Electronic format to audio

[Ron Wickersham]

On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, David Rosenstrauch wrote:

Jack Smith wrote:
> 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

in Gnome look under accessibility for "Screen reader and magnifier"
which will start up Gnopernicus which may talk thru your speakers
that the accessiblity-options are not configured and offering to set
it up for you.

(i normally use CDE but restarted in Sun's Java Desktop which is their
version of Gnome since i remembered seeing the accessability stuff in
there.     if you're not using unix/linux then i know from helping
blind people that the usual recommended software for MicroSoft costs
more than two thousand dollars and most people on the blind usenet
pay for it.   but i like that the facility is already completely
installed for free on my system and works out of the box in
Solaris 10 6/06 version for X64 and probably on Linux Gnome as well).

-ron