[orca-list] Converting from text to MP3 files

[Luciano de Souza <luchyanus gmail com>]

Hi listers,

Having arrived to Linux few months ago, I felt the lack of an important 
feature: conversors from text to audio files.

My first atempt was Gespeaker, however, it was unsuccessfull because of 
two reasons:

1. Having pasted long texts in Gespeaker interface, I was not able to 
convert then. Regarding that I want to convert books to read in MP3 
players, this limitation was extreme.

2. The short texts I could convert were made of one track only. If I 
want to read books, it's fundamental to divide the output file in 
several tracks, allowing the easy navigation among contents.

I can read in front of the computer, but I'm not used to do it. Much 
more confortable it's to read whereever we are. Because of that, the 
quantitiy of reading after Linux migration reduced significantly.

What do you suggest me to recover the past style of reading?

Are there other conversors like that?

If not, does speak have line commands to automatize this type of conversion?

I don't know if this question is appropriate for this group, but as I 
don't know where to do it...

Regards,

Luciano de Souza