Kernel: 2.6.32.42-generic
Date: August 19th, 2010
Hi,
I need to read through a lot of pdfs or papers and if its a day long reading on computer screen, it gets pretty annoying and stressful for eyes after a while. So I've been looking for 'Acrobat Read Out Loud' like feature. Unfortunately I couldn't find anything out there and Acrobat read out loud wasn't working out of the box.
So here is how I get it working:
- Install eSpeak speech engine
- Install libgnome-speech7
- Install libgnome-speech-dev
- At this point you may need to restart, I am saying "may" because I rebooted computer and don't know what would be result without reboot
- Open Acrobat Reader -> Edit -> Preferences -> Reading -> Driver Choose espeak, I tried festival and failed,
- I'm currently looking for more voices, I don't like robot-like voice but its good as for now.
- Extra: If you like to continue reading from last point, you may want to check Edit -> preferences -> Documents -> Restore Last View ......
Hope this helps you,
