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Converting documents to audiobooks

With podcasts and portable mp3 players increasing the popularity of audio as a medium for content other than just songs, here is a great article in the August edition of linux gazette.

To summarize, it is a HOW-TO for converting PDF/PS/HTML to mp3, all with the use of open source software and tools (ofcourse ! )

The Tools

archmage (CHM) requires also python
ps2ascii (PS and PDF) from the ghostscript-library package
Lynx
text2wave from Festival
the lame MP3 encoder