Might want to have a chat with Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic. They
might have such books, or they might advise you on how to structure an audio
for this purpose. It's convenient that the docs come as small HTML files all
linked together -- a voice-activated PC might be able to handle this
requirement.
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Surely there's a Reader's Digest Condensed Version....
Or how about Cliff Notes?
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Also, for Oracle 7 at least, the documentation is about 10,000 pages long,
that would take a lot of tapes.
Regards,
Patrice Boivin
Systems Analyst (Oracle DBA)
Bedford Institute of Oceanography
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
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> From: dana
> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 10:36 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Re: Oracle Books on Audio Tapes
>
>
> --- Apps Sol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Is there any place where we can get Oracle books on Tape (Audio
> > tapes or CD's)
> > RK
>
>
> I doubt it. From what I understand, audio books are primarily made from
> best-selling fiction. What non-fiction audio books exist are probably
> limited to stuff with the broadest general appeal (best-sellers).
>
> I've personally never heard of technical books on tape/audio CD.
> However, you might be able to make your own, rather tediously, if you
> receive a PDF version along with a "dead tree" technical book.
>
> 1. Copy-paste the text from the PDF to your word processor of choice.
> 2. Use text-to-speech software to creave WAV files
> 3. Burn to CD.
>
> Or, you may want to purchase some Oracle Computer-Based-Training CDROMs
> and burn the audio tracks to an audio CD(if they're in a standard audio
> format or a format you could convert to WAVs) - or convert and download
> to an MP3 player. That's probably your best choice, though an expensive
> one.
>
> - Dana
>
>
>
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