Thursday, August 19, 2010

Acrobat Read out Loud

OS: Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx
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,

3 comments:

  1. Hare Krishna, Thankyou very much.

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  2. in my edit>preference>reading> volume option is disabled how i can enabled it i have installed espeak....using the system in ubuntu 13.04

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