Listen-Up

[Steve Holmes]

Yeah, I got the Victor Reader Wave manual to play just fine.  In fact,
you can say "listen-up ." while inside the book's directory too.  My
mystery now is to get books built by Eclipse Writer to work.  I bought
Eclispse Writer to convert my bookshare books to something usable.  In
particular, the O'Reilly books from bookshare aren't compatible with the
provided reader so I convert them to DAISY 2.02 with synthesised speech
so I can listen to them with my Victor Wave and I was hoping to be able
to use listen-up to use them while in Linux.  I'm baffled as to why they
work one place but not somewhere else.  Perhapse there's a better DAISY
builder than Eclipse but this seemed to be the most reasonably priced
product available to me.  I wwould also like to see if listen-up could
be rigged to read RFB books also.

On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 09:08:21AM +0200, Willem van der Walt wrote:
> Listen-up works with some books.
> You have to start it like:
> listen-up dirname
> where dirname is the directory containing the ncc.html file.
> You then go in and enter as you stand on the file option in the menu mode.
> You then choose open with the up and down arrows and press enter.
> It should start talking/reading the book.
> Note, If you are using software speech and your pc does not support two 
> audio streams at once, you might have problems.
> Just before pressing enter on the open option, you can turn speakup off 
> with speakup-enter.
> I think, implementing the find option would help a lot.  There was also 
> some talk on replacing osalp with some or other cross-platform audio 
> library.
> HTH, Willem


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