On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Gustav Degreef <gustav97@gmail.com> wrote:
On 07/16/2014 07:20 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
El 2014-07-16 a las 13:07 -0400, Greg Freemyer escribió:
She needs a way to read long PDFs in particular. She currently uses a Mac as her primary PC and she has an iPad I believe.
I believe that acrobat has that functionality natively - but I have never used it. Maybe it needs Windows. Maybe it needs some support engine.
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There is some support for text to speech in openSUSE. Dunno how good it is for sustained, long text read. I think not much.
I don't know much about Apple products but I know iPhones and Ipod Touches with newer IOS versions have a fair amount of TTS support. One blind physician with whom I have worked says his iPhone is indispensable.
Great. I will have to figure that out for my friend. She's not the most technical.
Acrobat Reader has native TTS capability in windows. I found it cumbersome and very difficult to use.
You may want to try a newer version of Reader. I was very impressed with my recent test, but I had it reading paragraphs. It can also do pages and the whole doc. Okay, I just tried another doc and it was totally unusable. So it seems that the structure of the PDF matters to a big degree.
The same feature does not work in linux (last tried it a couple of years ago).
I wondered about that.
KDE has jovie which is it's most mature TTS application. Once jovie is enabled, Okular will read pdf files very well and much better than acrobat reader. It will read selected sections, selected text, whole documents. It works great for me. jovie sits in the system tray and text selected in most applications can be read out by clicking the icon. It is well integrated with okular, konqueror and a few other applications I believe.
I'm finding that out as I experiment. I just found okular has a right click option for select to text to read it. Very nice.
I'm still struggling with the win7 TTS applications, so can't give much feedback. I have an android tablet, but I still have not figured out most of it. Gustav
Thanks for the feedback. I didn't realize there was so much "native" support for TTS.
From what I see at this point, Okular with it's select text - right click speak text feature is more flexible the Acroread. But for at least some PDFs the acrobat reader is smoother and easier to listen to if you have pages and pages of info to listen to.
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