Comment Better yet... Listen to your books. *For near free (Score 1) 219
Convert your text into mp3's and listen to them at a high rate of speed.
Blind people know all about this, but if you listen to high speed text you will get used to it. Try gradually increasing the speed...
Eventually you'll be going through 3-4 lengthy books in a week and without eye strain.
Project Gutenberg provides the fuel, and textaloud mp3 provides the engine.
There has been a story on here about ATT's new voice engine, natural voices, and it's absolutely phenomenal. At their higher end voices, it's virtually indistinguishable from human speech. (It's WAY beyond the "hawking" voice now.)
Anyways, I'm hooked to text-mp3's... I think most people will be too in a few years.
BTW, there's a pretty thriving ebook community on IRC as well.
NEways... good luck if you were looking for this. If you weren't, hope you have a good appetite for dust.
Blind people know all about this, but if you listen to high speed text you will get used to it. Try gradually increasing the speed...
Eventually you'll be going through 3-4 lengthy books in a week and without eye strain.
Project Gutenberg provides the fuel, and textaloud mp3 provides the engine.
There has been a story on here about ATT's new voice engine, natural voices, and it's absolutely phenomenal. At their higher end voices, it's virtually indistinguishable from human speech. (It's WAY beyond the "hawking" voice now.)
Anyways, I'm hooked to text-mp3's... I think most people will be too in a few years.
BTW, there's a pretty thriving ebook community on IRC as well.
NEways... good luck if you were looking for this. If you weren't, hope you have a good appetite for dust.
