I've tried several with no luck, particularly reading source code is
just awful.

I thought there might be a market for 'tech briefing' podcast, where
someone simply and straightforwardly explains a given topic and its
components in a mp3 player friendly way.

On Jun 30, 7:42 pm, Jan Goyvaerts <java.arti...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Something like iText should be able to filter the content of a pdf to its
> basetext to feed it into the synthesizer. And there're even different
> voices.
>
> It would have been nice to imitate the author's accent though. ;-)
>
> Thanks !
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:14, Steve <smsi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've used this in testing and was quite pleased with both the simplicity of
> > the API (based on the java speach API) and the quality.
>
> >http://freetts.sourceforge.net/docs/index.php
>
> > Happy hacking,
>
> > Steve
>
> > S
>
> > On Jun 30, 2010, at 2:36 AM, Jan Goyvaerts <java.arti...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >  I'm spending quite a lot of time on the road these days. So much that I
> >> ran out of podcasts ! :-)
>
> >> But I still have a ton of text material to read. I can put the laptop
> >> beside me in the car and let it "read" it for me. But, if it can read I
> >> guess it can record in mp3 too.
>
> >> Does somebody knows about an application to do this ? And save me from
> >> eternal boredom at the wheel ? ;-)
>
> >> Thanks !!!!
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