Ebook to Audio Book Conversion

I really don’t have the time to read much.  I read slowly and my eyes tend to jump up and down whole lines which makes it impossible to keep a train of thought.  I probably need to get it checked out with a doctor to see if I can work around this but until then, I’ll see if my trusty digital assistant to help me out by converting the books from text to audio via computer translation.

I’m going to outline what I had to do to get this done, and will be using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for this endeavor.

  • Ebook to Audio Book Reference (link)
  • Install Festival (link)
  • Install Better Voices (link)
  • Pico Text (link)