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Palm SW
Speech SW/module for PDA ebooks | |
Palm/Handspring/WinCE machines make useful
e-books, but the %^$&!@ small screens mean you
read Stephen King's "DreamCatcher" in itty-bitty
gulps.
So how about a module (for Handspring first,
please)
with a speech synth in it and a headphone jack?
Set
the palm in your lap while you're
driving and listen
to
audio e-books! It could have several voices (like a
Mac) and it could read email digests to me, too.
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There are vastly more books available as audiobooks (on tape, on CD, ...) than in any e-book format. Why are you looking to exchange a greater selection of books read by real people and playable on anything from a Walkman to a Rio (or even a Visor with the MP3 module) for a handful of books read by a tinny synthesizer voice requiring custom hardware? |
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Well, of course, if you have a Palm that you already carry with you much of the time, it would be nice not to have to also carry a CD or tape player, and the associated discs or tapes. |
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But it will be some time before text/voice conversion software gets close enough to human speech to make this worth doing, and I bet by that time there will be enough RAM in the Palm devices to store an MP3 or similar version of the audio recording. |
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IMHO the internet is porn, chat, and a resource for the education of the masses. |
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