Dear Alan, for example, ePub files from this page: http://palmknihy.cz/free/index.php?SEARCH=easy&cat=10 The third file from top (Rukopis Královédvorský - an ePub version, of course ) just makes Bard to quit. These files are without DRM.
Many thanks for you work. Best regards, Jiri Brozovsky 2012/3/8, Alan W Black <[email protected]>: > Jiří Brožovský wrote: >> Hello Alan, >> >> Thank you very much for this nice update! >> >> I can open some epub files (even with correct text encoding - that's >> great!) but the Bard refuses to open other ones (I will try to find >> why). > > I tried this on a whole bunch of epub files, and tried to follow the > standard for reading files (I haven't followed the whole standard but > thought I was close). > > I'm not surprised that there are some it doesn't work on. If you can > email the file (assuming you can legally do that), I'll take a closer look. > > Note I can't deal with DRM's files (and probably never will be able to > do that), but I should at least tell the user its DRM'd. > > thanks > > Alan > > >> >> Best regards, >> Jiri Brozovsky >> >> 2012/3/8, Alan W Black <[email protected]>: >>> Bard Storyteller 0.7 >>> http://festvox.org/bard/ >>> >>> Bard Storyteller is free software, distributed under a BSD-like >>> license. >>> >>> See http://festvox.org/bard/README for details >>> >>> New in 0.7 has >>> Epub support (and initial image support) >>> Text highlighting based on (x)html in epub. >>> Bug fixes -- (I used it a lot to read books) >>> Fixes in audio streaming so it "gargles" less >>> Smooth Scroll fixes >>> Cursor hiding >>> >>> For epub support you must have libzip, SDL_image and SDL_gfx support. >>> SDL_image and SDL_gfx are already available on the Ben Nanonote. An ipk >>> package file for libzip is included. >>> >>> I have standardized the use of the volume key on the nanonote to >>> control volume, scroll speed or page up/down depending on whether its >>> speaking, scrolling or in idle position. >>> >>> Note you must update your version of flite (again) to complie 0.7. >>> The new support for generalized token streams requires an updated >>> version of flite. >>> >>> The next improvements on the immediate horizon are: >>> Better voices (that are fast enough, which is currently our problem) >>> better voices are fully supported on faster platforms >>> >>> Alan W Black email: [email protected] >>> Language Technologies Institute http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/ >>> Carnegie Mellon University tel: +1-412-268-6299 >>> 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh PA, 15213, USA. fax: +1-412-268-6298 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Qi Hardware Discussion List >>> Mail to list (members only): [email protected] >>> Subscribe or Unsubscribe: >>> http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Qi Hardware Discussion List >> Mail to list (members only): [email protected] >> Subscribe or Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion > > > _______________________________________________ > Qi Hardware Discussion List > Mail to list (members only): [email protected] > Subscribe or Unsubscribe: > http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): [email protected] Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion

