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Each script is useful in its own right and does a different task.
1- ereadfile allows to read a txt file right-clicking on it and selecting the corresponding entry in the menu.
You can manually link the script located in /usr/bin to the desktop. In this way you can drag and drop a file that will be immediatly read aloud.
2- ereadclipboard allows to read the text contained in the clipboard. You can select a text from an application and listen to it. Nice when you are browsing the internet and want to listen to an article in the meantime. Still better if you link the script to the desktop and assign a keyboard shortcut to it ; then you can easily let your computer read something while you are drinking a beer
Just select and press the key you have chosen; or select and click on the icon of ereadclipboard on your desktop. Also works with epdfview, the standard viewer for pdf files in puppy.3- ereadfile2mp3 allows to convert a txt file into mp3 right-clicking on it.
Note that the scripts lack icons. You can manually add the one I have put in /usr/share/mini-icons/lips.png if you like.
To change the language edit the scripts with a text editor (e.g. mb-en1 could be turned into mb-fr2, mb-it3, etc and en1 into fr1, it4, etc.) and don't forget to put your mbrola voice in /usr/share/mbrola. If it happens that you want to stop the reading of a long file you can do it with Pprocess by cancelling the 'aplay' process
To use these scripts you must have installed at least one mbrola voice and espeak. If you are hassled by the search just download this package with all the needed stuff here.
Tested on puppy 4.x and 5.x lupu.
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gEread is a gtkdialog3 gui for puppy linux to read txt and html files with a synthetic voice by using espeak engine and mbrola voices. The program can also convert a file into an audio file with ogg, mp3 or flac encoding by using ffmpeg and has drag-n-drop capability.
Basically it does the same things of eread (see links at the top of the page) but with some more functions, such as to pause during the reading of a file and conveniently browse directories.
The program has been developed with Wary 5.0 but should work with other versions of puppy. Just keep in mind that you must have in your pup gtkdialog3, ffmpeg, espeak and at least one mbrola voice.
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Changelog
v.0.5
-changed ffmpeg dependency with avconv for flac and ogg conversions, and lame for mp3 conversions
-this version works with puppy tahr
v. 0.4
- read clipboard content added
*To read the content of the clipboard you must leave the file selection blank.
*To put a text in the clipboard just highlight the area of text (no need of CTRL+C. That's the linux way
)- an icon path has been fixed. it didn't show correctly in some puppy versions.
- tested with 4.3.1 and slako 5.3.1. It should work with many other puppy versions. With racy 5.3 you have to start the application from a terminal otherwise pause, backwards and forwards do not work. It's a tricky issue and I think it's related to this problem raised by vovchik and up until now I haven't seen a reply to this kind of issues. It has to do with the way jobs are managed by the OS and not all puppy OSs run in same way at a low level.
v. 0.3
- buttons to skip backwards and forwards while reading added
- choice on how much to skip of the file
- mark on the last skipped line
- minor bugs fixed
tested with wary 5.0, lupu 5.2, slacko 5.3
