[Fot] Driving Music -Text to Speach angle

[mark eginton]

Another angle; I just completed a run at an MBA and discovered text-to-speach programs with the AT&T voices. Personally I like "Crystal" to read to me, definitely worth the additional cost!!! It was a great way to reduce downloaded articles and anything in virtually any format to audio using a laptop. I even ran it through the stereo as I have a 50 min drive to work each way. Turned 10 hours a week of down time to study time. 
   
  Coupled with a Sprint type of Cellular internet card for the laptop and it will even read all the drivel we post from your Outlook emails while you motor. Its completely compatible with Outlook and will work through your email.
   
  Cheers,
   
  Mark Eginton at a new email address...
   
  

Bill Babcock <billb at bnj.com> wrote:
  As soon as i get to it I'm going to put a "Books on Tape and Paper" 
section on the blog too. Diane and I are both voracious readers and 
listen to books on long drives when we aren't doing music. The 
ultimate, in my mind, is "Snows of Kilimanjaro" read by Charlton 
Heston. Short, but an absolute must a few times in your life.

I should explain perhaps that I'm a longtime iPOD junkie and while my 
CD collection still exists, I listen to music and books on tape via 
various MP3 players. Audible.com is a great source for MP3 version of 
books.

Bill Babcock
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On Apr 3, 2007, at 6:37 PM, Randall wrote:

>> One other recommendation is "Books on Tape" (but get them on CDs).
>
> I will second that ... but my suggestion is to get a player that 
> will handle MP3
> files on CD and then transcribe your "books on CD" to MP3 format. 
> That way you
> can get several complete books on a single disc, rather than having 
> 5 or more
> discs per book.
>
> And if you can find a book you like, it not only makes the miles 
> fly by, but I
> find it really reduces my stress level as well. I arrive much more 
> rested (and
> a bit sorry I'm there). On more than one occasion, I've sat in the 
> parking lot,
> listening to the end of a chapter !
>
> FWIW, I'm currently listening to "Even Cowgirls get the Blues" by 
> Tom Robbins.
> Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, Tony Hillerman and Janet Evanovich 
> are some of
> my other favorite authors for driving. Ayn Rand went over really 
> well too,
> towing an unloaded trailer to St. Paul & back.
>
> Randall
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