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http://www.spacejock.com/yRead.html
yRead will load a plain text (TXT) or HTML file and display it in a
single-column, resizable window. Then it will read the file to you out
loud, using human speech. You can even get voices for other languages
(see the MSAgent link below) Use it to listen to ebooks, your own
writings or any other piece of text.
Here's a neat suggestion: Load a book into yRead, set up a sound
recorder on your PC, then play the yRead file. The recorder will save
to a WAV file (which will be huge), and then you use a WAV to MP3
program to condense the finished file. (Use low quality, e.g. a bit
rate of 64 in mono). Once finished, transfer the MP3 file to an
portable player and you'll have an audio book on the run!
yRead now includes a catalogue screen for the online Gutenberg archive
- it will retrieve the latest catalogue, show you a sorted list of all
titles and allow you to pick, download and listen to any of them.
yRead includes a translation table (see the help file). This enables
you to build a series of phonetic spellings so that mis-pronounced
words will come out correctly. This is a fairly dumb string replace, so
if you replace 'e' with 'x' you'll havx to livx with the consxquxncxs.
yRead will load a plain text (TXT) or HTML file and display it in a
single-column, resizable window. Then it will read the file to you out
loud, using human speech. You can even get voices for other languages
(see the MSAgent link below) Use it to listen to ebooks, your own
writings or any other piece of text.
Here's a neat suggestion: Load a book into yRead, set up a sound
recorder on your PC, then play the yRead file. The recorder will save
to a WAV file (which will be huge), and then you use a WAV to MP3
program to condense the finished file. (Use low quality, e.g. a bit
rate of 64 in mono). Once finished, transfer the MP3 file to an
portable player and you'll have an audio book on the run!
yRead now includes a catalogue screen for the online Gutenberg archive
- it will retrieve the latest catalogue, show you a sorted list of all
titles and allow you to pick, download and listen to any of them.
yRead includes a translation table (see the help file). This enables
you to build a series of phonetic spellings so that mis-pronounced
words will come out correctly. This is a fairly dumb string replace, so
if you replace 'e' with 'x' you'll havx to livx with the consxquxncxs.