I wonder if you know this package:
ebook-speaker
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/ebook-speaker
which is a cli GNU/Linux command specially designed to
blind people by a blind programmer who recently died.
He was maintainer for it for many years and his brother
wrote to some people asking help, specially to programmers
who could help him to keep on doing his brother's outstanding
work...
This program reads aloud ebooks in many formats and in many
languages...
You should try it... if you can...
Unfortunately, it is not in freeBSD repos... and I am not able to port
it since I am not a programmer and have no experience in porting any
package to freeBSD.
Since you are involved with sound studio, music and all of this art
stuff, I thought you perhaps will be interested or could find to help me
to find someone to port it to freeBSD...
Any thoughts about this?
Cypher
I wonder if freeBSD crew knows this amazing program for
reading electronic books
ebook-speaker
which is a cli GNU/Linux command specially designed to
blind people by a blind programmer who recently died...
Jos was maintainer for it for many years. His brother - or someone very close to him:
wrote to some people asking help with the program,
Specially to programmers
who could help him to keep on doing his brother's outstanding
work...
This program reads—and can record texts as well, turning them into
audio-book - aloud e-books in many formats and in many
languages...
The freeBSD community should try it... if they can...
Unfortunately, it is not in freeBSD repos... and I am not able to port
it since I am not a programmer and have no experience in porting any
package to freeBSD.
I have read some book with this program in my GNU/Debian box... But
I really would like to see it in freeBSD as well.
If someone in community tries it and like it and have experience in porting,
please do so. The community will gain a lot with this little cli program...
Here is the email that was sent...
"
Hello,
as stated in http://ta.twi.tudelft.nl/dv/staff/lemmens/jlemmens.nl/ Jos passed
away on November 9, 2021.
I had a phone call with his brother Kees this morning:
https://www.tudelft.nl/en/eemcs/the...ematics/mathematical-physics/people/lemmens-k
http://ta.twi.tudelft.nl/dv/users/lemmens/
He is OK for someone taking over the maintenance of ebook-speaker and daisy
player and putting these software in a public git repository.
I have mirrored http://ta.twi.tudelft.nl/dv/staff/lemmens/jlemmens.nl/ locally
but have neither the skills nor the time to take over these software.
Can any of you do that? Else, what would be the best way to find someone willing
to do it?
I wish you a Happy New Year.
Cheers,
Didier"
Didier Spaier
didier@slint.fr
Any thoughts about this?
ebook-speaker
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/ebook-speaker
which is a cli GNU/Linux command specially designed to
blind people by a blind programmer who recently died.
He was maintainer for it for many years and his brother
wrote to some people asking help, specially to programmers
who could help him to keep on doing his brother's outstanding
work...
This program reads aloud ebooks in many formats and in many
languages...
You should try it... if you can...
Unfortunately, it is not in freeBSD repos... and I am not able to port
it since I am not a programmer and have no experience in porting any
package to freeBSD.
Since you are involved with sound studio, music and all of this art
stuff, I thought you perhaps will be interested or could find to help me
to find someone to port it to freeBSD...
Any thoughts about this?
Cypher
I wonder if freeBSD crew knows this amazing program for
reading electronic books
ebook-speaker
ebook-speaker - Debian Package Tracker
tracker.debian.org
which is a cli GNU/Linux command specially designed to
blind people by a blind programmer who recently died...
Jos was maintainer for it for many years. His brother - or someone very close to him:
wrote to some people asking help with the program,
Specially to programmers
who could help him to keep on doing his brother's outstanding
work...
This program reads—and can record texts as well, turning them into
audio-book - aloud e-books in many formats and in many
languages...
The freeBSD community should try it... if they can...
Unfortunately, it is not in freeBSD repos... and I am not able to port
it since I am not a programmer and have no experience in porting any
package to freeBSD.
I have read some book with this program in my GNU/Debian box... But
I really would like to see it in freeBSD as well.
If someone in community tries it and like it and have experience in porting,
please do so. The community will gain a lot with this little cli program...
Here is the email that was sent...
"
Hello,
as stated in http://ta.twi.tudelft.nl/dv/staff/lemmens/jlemmens.nl/ Jos passed
away on November 9, 2021.
I had a phone call with his brother Kees this morning:
https://www.tudelft.nl/en/eemcs/the...ematics/mathematical-physics/people/lemmens-k
http://ta.twi.tudelft.nl/dv/users/lemmens/
He is OK for someone taking over the maintenance of ebook-speaker and daisy
player and putting these software in a public git repository.
I have mirrored http://ta.twi.tudelft.nl/dv/staff/lemmens/jlemmens.nl/ locally
but have neither the skills nor the time to take over these software.
Can any of you do that? Else, what would be the best way to find someone willing
to do it?
I wish you a Happy New Year.
Cheers,
Didier"
Didier Spaier
didier@slint.fr
Any thoughts about this?