Re: [orca-list] Audiobooks

[Thomas Ward <thomasward1978 gmail com>]

Hi Tami,

Well, I don't know about a media player per say, but you can certainly
open the mp3, ogg, or whatever format you are using in Audacity and
then go to the effects menu and change the speed or use the speech
compressor option, and resave the book at your favorite speed.

To install Audacity, if you haven't already done so, is do
"sudo apt-get install audacity"
 from the terminal and apt-get will fetch Audacity and install it.
Also you might want to install lame as well if you are working with
mp3s.

HTH


On 8/7/11, Tami Kinney <tamara 8024 comcast net> wrote:
> Hi, all,
>
> I'm an Orca newbie running Ubuntu 11.04. My prior Unix/Linux experience
> is so long ago, I might as well be a Linux newbie, but I'm having fun
> getting back into it and discovering all the cool new stuff while I"m
> getting up to speed with Orca. I'm spending a lot of time learning how
> to problem-solve myself while reading about what the rest of you are
> doing.
>
> Meanwhile, I want to take time out to read my audiobooks, but I like to
> listen to them at a higher speed... I'm using Banshee for playing music
> files, but I haven't found a plug in to allow me to increase play speed.
> There seem to be a couple of programs for Linux to do that, but I can't
> tell yet which ones would work with Orca.
>
> Is anyone else using a media player that will enable them to increase
> the playback speed for audiobooks with Orca? Any information will be
> appreciated.
>
> Tami
>
>
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