ebook-speaker: ebook-speaker (Read eBooks with Linux using a speech-synthesizer) ebook-speaker: ebook-speaker: eBook-speaker reads an eBook and uses a speech synthisizer for output. ebook-speaker: eBook-speaker reads the EPUB format. If the given file is not an ebook-speaker: EPUB it will be converted using several tools like calibre, lowriter, ebook-speaker: pandoc, pdftotext, scanimage, pnmflip, unrtf or tesseract. ebook-speaker: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-book_formats) ebook-speaker: eBook-speaker can use any TTS (Text-To_speech) tool, as long as the ebook-speaker: TTS can read the text from a file and writes the audio to a .wav file. ebook-speaker: The file ~/.eBook-speaker.xml contains TTS tools to use. ebook-speaker: Author: Joss Lemmens