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ardeegee · 11-22-2009, 02:39 PM

Okay, you want a crazy kludge ala the Apollo 13 solution?

Buy the audio book.

http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/ent...BK_SANS_001901

Buy a speech-to-text program (they are advertising Dragon Naturally Speaking on TV now-- hopefully the technology has improved since I played around with (and rejected) Dragon Dictate in the early 1990s.)

There should be a way (either with a cable or software) to trick the speech-to-text program to use the playing of the audio book being read as input for converting to text. Play the whole book while covering your ears and going "la-la-la-la" (or just not being near the computer.) Put the resulting text file on your Reader.

11-22-2009, 02:39 PM	#15
ardeegee Maratus speciosus butt Posts: 3,292 Karma: 1162698 Join Date: Sep 2009 Device: PRS-350	Okay, you want a crazy kludge ala the Apollo 13 solution? Buy the audio book. http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/ent...BK_SANS_001901 Buy a speech-to-text program (they are advertising Dragon Naturally Speaking on TV now-- hopefully the technology has improved since I played around with (and rejected) Dragon Dictate in the early 1990s.) There should be a way (either with a cable or software) to trick the speech-to-text program to use the playing of the audio book being read as input for converting to text. Play the whole book while covering your ears and going "la-la-la-la" (or just not being near the computer.) Put the resulting text file on your Reader.