eBook-speaker [eBook_file | -s] [-d ALSA_sound_device] [-t TTS_command]
A list of items on the eBook will appear. Press <ENTER> to start reading. When reading of an item has finished, eBook-speaker will read the next item and the cursor will automatically skip to that item, so that an attached braille-terminal will display the name of that item.
Supported formats
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AportisDoc
ASCII mail text
ASCII text
Broadband eBooks (BBeB)
Composite Document File (Microsoft Office Word)
DAISY3 DTBook
EPUB ebook data
GIF image data
GutenPalm zTXT
HTML document
ISO-8859 text
JPEG image data
Microsoft Reader eBook Data
Microsoft Windows HtmlHelp Data
Microsoft Word 2007+
Mobipocket E-book
MS Windows HtmlHelp Data
Netpbm PPM data
OpenDocument Text
PDF document
PeanutPress PalmOS
PNG image data
PostScript document
Rich Text Format
UTF-8 Unicode mail text
UTF-8 Unicode text
WordPerfect
When no input-file is supplied, eBook-speaker will bring up a file-manager.
Keyboard-commands in the file-manager:
enter or cursor right Start eBook-speaker with current file as input.
cursor left Select previous directory and open it.
cursor down Move cursor to the next file.
cursor up Move cursor to the previous file.
page-down View next page.
page-up View previous page.
/ Search for a file.
B Move cursor to the last file.
h or ? Give this help.
H Toggle hidden files displaying on or off.
n Search next.
N Search previous.
q Quit eBook-speaker.
T Move cursor to the first file.
Examples:
The second row of the screen displays the number of pages of the current loaded book (if any), the current selected level and the total number of levels, the total number of phrases and the current displayed screen and the total number of screens.
The spoken phrase will be displayed on the bottom-line of the screen, so one can follow along on a braille-terminal what he hears.
The next rows displays the title of the item, the first page of the item within brackets (if there are pages) and the total number of phrases in this item. Items in higher levels are indented. (Three spaces each level.) When "just reading this item" is active, a "J" is viewed at the first column of that item.
Be sure that the new TTS reads its information from the file eBook-speaker.txt and that it writes to the file eBook-speaker.wav.
espeak -f eBook-speaker.txt -w eBook-speaker.wav espeak -f eBook-speaker.txt -w eBook-speaker.wav -v mb-en1 espeak -f eBook-speaker.txt -w eBook-speaker.wav -v de espeak -f eBook-speaker.txt -w eBook-speaker.wav -v nl espeak -f eBook-speaker.txt -w eBook-speaker.wav -v mb-nl2 flite eBook-speaker.txt eBook-speaker.wav swift -n Lawrence -f eBook-speaker.txt -o eBook-speaker.wav text2wave eBook-speaker.txt -o eBook-speaker.wav text2wave -eval '(voice_en1_mbrola)' eBook-speaker.txt -o eBook-speaker.wav pico2wave -w eBook-speaker.wav "`cat eBook-speaker.txt`"
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