Found cool site for creating audiobooks or files

[Sparko]

I saw this on Revision 3 Tekzilla. It's a site that will convert a web page to audio and it does a freakishly good job of it

www.soundgecko.com

I am thinking you could use it to create audiobooks from project gutenberg html pages maybe. The free service is limited to 4k words but they have a pay version for $2.95 with a limit of 30,000 words and can read from pdf files and stuff.


I will post some text in this post then convert it to audio and attach the mp3 file below so you can listen to it.

-
At the Earth's Core
By
Edgar Rice Burroughs

PROLOGUE


In the first place please bear in mind that I do not expect you to
believe this story. Nor could you wonder had you witnessed a recent
experience of mine when, in the armor of blissful and stupendous
ignorance, I gaily narrated the gist of it to a Fellow of the Royal
Geological Society on the occasion of my last trip to London.

You would surely have thought that I had been detected in no less a
heinous crime than the purloining of the Crown Jewels from the Tower,
or putting poison in the coffee of His Majesty the King.

The erudite gentleman in whom I confided congealed before I was half
through!--it is all that saved him from exploding--and my dreams of an
Honorary Fellowship, gold medals, and a niche in the Hall of Fame faded
into the thin, cold air of his arctic atmosphere.

But I believe the story, and so would you, and so would the learned
Fellow of the Royal Geological Society, had you and he heard it from
the lips of the man who told it to me. Had you seen, as I did, the
fire of truth in those gray eyes; had you felt the ring of sincerity in
that quiet voice; had you realized the pathos of it all--you, too,
would believe. You would not have needed the final ocular proof that I
had--the weird rhamphorhynchus-like creature which he had brought back
with him from the inner world.

[Sparko]

ok the mp3 is attached.

soundgecko.mp3

[QuantaFille]

It might work for textbooks and non-fiction, but for a work of fiction, ehhh... there's just no feeling to it. Actors usually narrate audiobooks, because they know how to "act out" the story and give a different voice to each character.

[Stefcui]

This is an amazing tool. Wow. Opens up new frontiers in learning! I plan to use this tool in my website library if I ever finish it. Well done Sparky...

God Bless