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(C)2013 J. Lemmens
DESCRIPTION
eBook-speaker reads an eBook and uses a speech synthisizer for output.
eBook-speaker reads the EPUB format. If the given file is not an
EPUB it will be converted using several tools like calibre, lowriter,
pandoc, pdftohtml, scanimage, html2, 2html or tesseract.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-book_formats)
eBook-speaker can use any TTS (Text-To_speech) tool, as long as the TTS
can read the text from a file and writes the audio to a .wav file.
The file ~/.eBook-speaker.xml contains TTS tools to use.
REQUIREMENTS
Be sure the following extra packages exist on your system:
libncurses5
libncursesw5
libsox1b
libmagic1
libxml2
unzip
gettext
language-pack-nl
language-pack-de
espeak
libreoffice-writer
calibre
pandoc
xml2
poppler-utils
ghostscript
tesseract-ocr
sane-utils
The following packages are needed to make the manual and the html document:
txt2man
man2html
USAGE
As a mortal user, give on the command line,:
$ eBook-speaker
A file-manager will appear from which an input-file can be selected.
An input-file can also be given as argument to eBook-speaker:
$ eBook-speaker file.epub
This starts reading the eBook and printing the content on
the screen. After giving an [ENTER], the eBook will be read using the
espeak speech synthisizer. One can select another TTS using the 't'command.
A list of items on the eBook will appear. Press <ENTER>
to start playing. When reading of an item has finished, eBook-speaker will
play the next item and the cursor will automatically skip
to that item, so that your braille-terminal will display the name
of that item.
For keyboard navigation, plese press 'h' or '?'.
eBook-speaker is multilingual. The following languages are currently
supported:
english, german, dutch.
Enjoy
Jos Lemmens
jos@jlemmens.nl
http://www.jlemmens.nl
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