[NBLUG/talk] Electronic format to audio

[Scott Doty]

On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 03:03:42PM -0700, Ron Wickersham wrote:
> 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.

Yikes -- I thought I'd give this a shot, so I went into gnome-control-center
and clicked the screen reader -- now anything having to do with gnome
crashes. :/

Does someone know where to shut off "accessibility" from the shell?  (We're
talking a major failure here -- ay carumba!)

 -Scott
p.s tia :)