Also you might care to see:-
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:The_Audio_Books_Project
and linked from there:-
http://audiobooksforfree.com/
Similar to librivox, but I suspect performances of somewhat better quality.
They offer a - somewhat pricey - 20Gb player pre-loaded with a 1000 books.
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On the content side, you should have a look/listen at http://librivox.org
They generally post in mp3 and ogg formats, iirc.
Free, public domain recordings of public domain books (project gutenberg,
mostly).
Hope this helps
Regards
Lee Begg
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, John Carter wrote:
> Anyway, try
ng 18 again...
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From: Andrew Errington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, 22 April 2008 4:55 p.m.
To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz
Subject: Re: I'm officially grumpy! Audiobooks for visually impaired.
> I have always wanted to install an MP3 player
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Robert Melchers wrote:
This might be what you are looking for
http://www.plextalk.com/in/ptn1pro_top.html. It has been designed with
the blind in mind.
There seem to be several walkman spinoff things for the blind.
But that either needs snail mail posting CD's around or a
> I have always wanted to install an MP3 player in a cassette:
>
> * detect the capstan turning == play
> * detect tension hub turning == rewind
> * detect wind-on hub turning == ffwd
> * playback audio goes out through a magnetic coupling to the playback head
> * record audio goes in through a ma
John Carter wrote:
> So I was speaking to Granny (who lives on The Far Side of the Planet),
> and I discover she can no longer read or watch TV. (Macular Degeneration)
>
snip
> None have tactile deducible controls. (ie. Can feel, braille like,
> which control it is.)
I have always wanted to install
John Carter wrote:
> So I was speaking to Granny (who lives on The Far Side of the Planet),
> and I discover she can no longer read or watch TV. (Macular Degeneration)
>
> The cassette player talking books seem to have reached end of life /
> becoming hard to get.
>
> "Easy", says I, I will buy her
Rock Box has voice support
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/VoiceHowto and
the cheap DSE mp3 players have a opensource firmware that mite have
Voice in the future
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
Have you tried?
http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/publicWebsite/public_talkingbooks.hcsp
Sigh! I still have the Carnegie free library ideal.
I must be old fashioned.
Asking a pensioner in a 3rd world country to pay GBP50 a
y
Have you tried?
http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/publicWebsite/public_talkingbooks.hcsp
On 4/22/08, Daniel Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> should have provided a link.
> http://wiki.s1mp3.org/Swan_proposal#Users.27_Interface sorry
> > Rock Box has voice support
> > http://ww
On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 14:04 +1200, John Carter wrote:
> None have tactile deducible controls. (ie. Can feel, braille like,
> which control it is.)
Roll-your-own keys and hack them into an MP3 player or talking picture
frame?
Vik :v)
should have provided a link.
http://wiki.s1mp3.org/Swan_proposal#Users.27_Interface sorry
Rock Box has voice support
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/VoiceHowto and
the cheap DSE mp3 players have a opensource firmware that mite have
Voice in the future
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 2:04:59 pm John Carter wrote:
> ... which reminds me, I must find where I put my reading glasses
> again)
>
I have a pair in the garage, one on my desk, one in my tool box, one in the
car and I still often have trouble finding a pair.
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