Have you tried some of the speech synthesis tools? There are some  
open source ones available:
http://freshmeat.net/browse/124/
[--Festival being the best-known one.]
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/

OS X also ships with decent speech synthesis tools. It is easy to  
write an applescript to generate a .wav from text.

It might be good enough for a "podcast"-quality version.

> Also, I sent Karl an e-mail asking about creating an audio version,
> to which he responded:
>
> On Dec 1, 2005, at 9:58 PM, Karl Fogel wrote:
>> Thanks for your kind words about the book, Robert, and for asking
>> about making an audio version.  Technically you don't have to ask,
>> because of the license, but for what it's worth you have my
>> enthusiastic permission.  And once it's done, I'd be happy to host  
>> (or
>> at least link to) a copy of the audio version from producingoss.com.
>>  ...
>> Good luck with the audio version, looking forward to it,
>> -Karl


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