Please see the below - the question is, what eBook readers with text to speech capabilities can input a .txt file (versus .htm etc.) Please copy Donna Woodstock <donna.woodstock@sheridanc.on.ca> or respond to her directly with any suggestions. Thanks! On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 03:21:13PM -0500, Donna Woodstock wrote:

Hi Greg,

If it's no trouble to forward to the list that would be appreciated. I tried searching for a html format for Frankenstein...it shows it is available but it still downloads as a .txt file.

Cheers!

Greg Newby wrote:

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On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 01:58:30PM -0500, Donna Woodstock wrote:

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I am wondering if it is possible when an ebook is downloaded to be able to open it up in a reader that has audio capabilities. I've tried Microsoft reader but I cannot get it to read the text format. If you can recommend a reader that can do this I would greatly appreciate it.

Hi, Donna. We've had people using products like ViaVoice and other text-to-speech programs. I don't know anything about Microsoft Reader's audio capabilities - it might be it's not capable of processing .txt files. Perhaps you could try one of our titles in HTML (see http://gutenberg.org/find)? Or, it might be necessary to transform a .txt to the proprietary Reader format. I know people can do this, but we don't have any information about the tools. If you're still stuck, I can forward your note to the gutvol-d list (http://lists.pglaf.org) to see whether people can provide some more specific guidance.

Sorry this isn't too helpful... -- Greg Newby