On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 5:32 PM, SJS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > begin quoting Rick Funderburg as of Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 03:38:56PM -0700: > > On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 3:33 PM, George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > My idea is to make an application that plays the audio books as it > shows > > > the text on screen. Hence, read-to-me Gutenberg. > > > > > > > Not bad idea, but how would you sync the text to the audio? > > > > Presumably, that would be the point of the application. >
Yes, but how? > Converting text into speech would presumably use a library. The guts > of an application would be in keeping track just where in the text > the audio was, and in displaying the correct piece of text. That is the easy way out. I thought we were discussing audio books, not text to speech. TTS still has not really advanced enough to be able to compare with the quality of most audio books. Also, anyone interested in public domain audio books should take a look at the Librivox project (http://librivox.org/). They have over 1500 audiobooks. -- Rick -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
