Re: [orca-list] Audiobooks

[Tami Kinney <tamara 8024 comcast net>]

Thanks! I'd seen Audacity but wasn't sure... Now I've got it and have an
exciting new toy to play with. /smile/ 

On Sun, 2011-08-07 at 13:20 -0400, Thomas Ward wrote: 
> 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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