Need to convert PDF to Audio MP3

[SuperMike]

My wife wants me to come up with a Linux script or program that can convert a PDF file into an audio MP3 that she can study while in her car or while working out.

Anyone got a Perl, Bash, or other script that can do this?

[Bonster]

festival or gspeaker

[rennau80]

hi, had the same problem, in the attachement is the file called pdf2mp3.py which does the conversion of a pdf or text/ascii file into a mp3 audio file.

i wanted to hear work-related publications while making sport during lunch brake. as there's only lot's of stupid commercial stuff in the web, i just wrote my own python-script/program that converts a pdf-file (or ascii/text-file) into an mp3 file. it should be very easy to make it work on a running ubuntu distribution
or other linux system, you just need to install the following packages:

 sudo apt-get install python poppler-utils festival festvox-rablpc16k lame

then you have to use the attached file called pdf2mp3.py and make it an executable via:

chmod +x pdf2mp3.py

and to be able to run that little program 'system-wide':

sudo cp pdf2mp3.py /usr/bin/

then you only have to call the script in your shell via:

pdf2mp3.py yourfilename.pdf

or via:

pdf2mp3.py yourfilename.txt

or via:

pdf2mp3.py yourfilename.dat

and an mp3 is being created!

PS: it is the english voice now. other voices can be downloaded here: http://cslu.cse.ogi.edu/tts/download/

[aiiaalla]

i am having a problem........


it says.....


chmod: cannot access `pdf2mp3.py': No such file or directory

please advise..........

on following commands terminal shows...............



nahar@nahar-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install python poppler-utils festival festvox-rablpc16k lame (command 1)
[sudo] password for nahar:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
python is already the newest version.
poppler-utils is already the newest version.
festival is already the newest version.
festvox-rablpc16k is already the newest version.
lame is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
linux-headers-2.6.31-14 libnss3-dev libfltk1.1 libnspr4-dev
linux-headers-2.6.31-14-generic
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
nahar@nahar-desktop:~$ chmod +x pdf2mp3.py (command 2)problem starts here
chmod: cannot access `pdf2mp3.py': No such file or directory
nahar@nahar-desktop:~$

[rennau80]

seems that you downloaded the file pdf2mp3.py to a different folder. if you do a

ls pdf2mp3.py

it should list the file (i think that for your case it is simply not in your path). otherwise you need to know to which directory you've downloaded the file and do the chmod-command there.

[aiiaalla]

nahar@nahar-desktop:~$ ls pdf2mp3.py
ls: cannot access pdf2mp3.py: No such file or directory
nahar@nahar-desktop:~$

the file is on the desktop........

[rennau80]

then you have to go to the desktop first via:

cd Desktop

should work. then do the chmod.

[Dubbayoo]

The file needs to be executable, even if it is in your current directory.

[aiiaalla]

Hey it worked.
Thanks a lot
how do I get a different voice?

[aiiaalla]

i downloaded 3 voice packages off the link supplied ....
how do i install them?