Beseda - ebooks speech reader 1.4.0

This Public Domain console program speaks the ebooks and is controlled via the keyboard to make it handy for the vision accessibility. Fast and simple. Supported formats: TXT, EPUB, FB2, ABW, [X]HTML, ODT, DOCX. Uses Speech Dispatcher to speak, so you can use synths such as RHVoice, Festival, espeak-ng, etc.

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License Public Domain
State development

Recent Releases

1.4.030 May 2024 08:46 major bugfix: internal changes and fixes
1.3.005 May 2024 09:18 major bugfix: Non-Unicode FB2 fix
1.2.123 Apr 2024 17:15 major bugfix: EPUB support fixed a lot, other fixes
1.2.016 Apr 2024 12:24 major feature: + Voice selection by pressing keys and + Select voice selection range from local to all supported languages - key Z
1.1.008 Apr 2024 19:07 major feature: + EPUB, KWD (old KWord format) support + Beseda can take the directory as the filename, to make this directory as the working one, so you can move through the files there (cursor left/right, Enter to load).
1.0.004 Apr 2024 17:00 major feature: The first release ever.