Package: ebook-speaker (6.2.0-4)

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eBook reader that reads aloud in a synthetic voice

This package provides a command-line e-reader that reads out electronic text using speech synthesis. It has a simple user interface appropriate for Braille terminals.

Currently the following formats are supported (some formats need additional packages as suggested by this package):

 AportisDoc
 ASCII mail text
 ASCII text
 Broadband eBooks (BBeB)
 Composite Document File (Microsoft Office Word)
 DAISY3 DTBook
 EPUB ebook data
 GIF image data
 GutenPalm zTXT
 GNU gettext message catalogue
 HTML document
 ISO-8859 text
 JPEG image data
 Microsoft Reader eBook Data
 Microsoft Windows HtmlHelp Data
 Microsoft Word 2007+
 Mobipocket E-book
 MS Windows HtmlHelp Data
 Netpbm PPM data
 OpenDocument Text
 PDF document
 PeanutPress PalmOS
 PNG image data
 POSIX shell script text
 PostScript document
 Rich Text Format
 troff or preprocessor text (e.g. Linux man-pages)
 UTF-8 Unicode mail text
 UTF-8 Unicode text
 WordPerfect
 XML document text

Tags: Accessibility Support: Speech Synthesis, Implemented in: C, User Interface: interface::commandline, role::program, Scope: Utility, Sound and Music: Playback, Interface Toolkit: uitoolkit::ncurses, use::playing, Supports Format: Need an extra tag, works-with-format::chm, works-with-format::epub, works-with-format::html, works-with-format::man, ODF, Open Document Format, works-with-format::pdf, works-with-format::plaintext, works-with-format::postscript, works-with::audio, Works with: Files, Text

Other Packages Related to ebook-speaker

• dep: espeak

  Multi-lingual software speech synthesizer
  also a virtual package provided by espeak-ng-espeak

• dep: libc6 (>= 2.33)

  GNU C Library: Shared libraries
  also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb

• dep: libmagic1 (>= 5.12)

  Recognize the type of data in a file using "magic" numbers - library

• dep: libncursesw6 (>= 6)

  shared libraries for terminal handling (wide character support)

• dep: libpulse0 (>= 5.0)

  PulseAudio client libraries

• dep: libsox-fmt-mp3

  SoX MP2 and MP3 format library

• dep: libsox-fmt-pulse

  SoX PulseAudio format I/O library

• dep: libsox3 (>= 14.4.2~)

  SoX library of audio effects and processing

• dep: libtinfo6 (>= 6)

  shared low-level terminfo library for terminal handling

• dep: libxml2 (>= 2.7.4)

  GNOME XML library

• dep: sox

  Swiss army knife of sound processing

• dep: unar

  Unarchiver for a variety of file formats

• dep: wget

  retrieves files from the web

• rec: pandoc

  general markup converter

• sug: calibre

  powerful and easy to use e-book manager

• sug: ghostscript

  interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF

• sug: libreoffice-writer

  office productivity suite -- word processor

• sug: man2html-base

  convert man pages into HTML format

• sug: netpbm

  Graphics conversion tools between image formats

• sug: poppler-utils

  PDF utilities (based on Poppler)

• sug: sane-utils

  API library for scanners -- utilities

• sug: tesseract-ocr

  Tesseract command line OCR tool

  or cuneiform

  multi-language OCR system

• sug: txt2man

  convert flat ASCII text to manpage format

• sug: unrtf

  RTF to other formats converter

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Download for all available architectures

Architecture	Package Size	Installed Size	Files
amd64	158.4 kB	395.0 kB	[list of files]
arm64	154.5 kB	387.0 kB	[list of files]
armel	153.3 kB	378.0 kB	[list of files]
armhf	152.8 kB	354.0 kB	[list of files]
i386	164.7 kB	414.0 kB	[list of files]
mips64el	155.4 kB	418.0 kB	[list of files]
mipsel	155.1 kB	404.0 kB	[list of files]
ppc64el	163.3 kB	463.0 kB	[list of files]
s390x	153.9 kB	399.0 kB	[list of files]