Delicious Libray convert to audiobook?

[ebutka]

Anyone use it? I started to scan in a lot of my books and is there any to convert the file into an audiobook? Or is there anyway I can take a book I have and convert that to an audiobook. Thanks.

 

[sharky05]

(Generally, the best way of creating an audiobook is reading it out yourself! This method below gets the computer to read it out for you in its default voice)

I can't say i'm familiar with Delicious Library, but if you have something in a plain text file, you can get mac OS to read it using the 'say' command:

1. Open up terminal
2. type "say -f " (note space at end)
3. Drag the plain text file you want to speak from finder onto the terminal window
4. add " -o mybook.aiff"

This reads the plaintext file and saves it as mybook.aiff

If that's too complex, you may find your book has already been released on one of these free sites:
http://librivox.org/
http://www.audiobooksforfree.com/home
http://www.booksshouldbefree.com/