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Old 07-30-2011, 05:01 PM   #1
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audio withh the acroread pdf reader?


Is there such a thing as a text-to-speech plugin for Acroread [for Ubuuntu]? Or is there a PDF utility that has built-in audio/tts?
 
Old 07-30-2011, 08:09 PM   #2
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You can use:

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pdftotext some.pdf - | festival --tts
 
Old 07-31-2011, 01:36 AM   #3
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errors

Nice idea but there are errors from festival.
 
Old 05-15-2012, 11:43 AM   #4
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Is there such a thing as a text-to-speech plugin for Acroread [for Ubuuntu]? Or is there a PDF utility that has built-in audio/tts?
Now there is with the release of this software.

http://linuxinnovations.blogspot.com...to-speach.html
 
  


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