Is this not such a good idea....especially when you are driving.
That's who OP meant - my "Stephen Hawkins bio" apparently sailed high and wide, although I thought my old pal rolleyes:, Sarcartes the emoticon) would have been a hint; ho hum.Stephen Hawking, you mean? ...
Stephen Hawking, you mean?
I agree with the posters who suggest that scanning, OCR-ing, recording, disk burning then listening in the car is a quite mad way to study.
Scanning produces an image of a page, a photograph if you like. That photograph needs to be converted to text via OCR. The text produced by the OCR program is what the text to speech program "reads".I can scan 35ppm+, not sure how long the text to speech will take? then burn the CD, doesn't seem to difficult to me...
Are you serious? Do you listen to music when you drive do you listen to the radio talk shows?
If not, let me fill you in, its ok to drive and listen to a CD or radio. Thats why the manufactures put them in the cars.
Are you serious? Do you listen to music when you drive do you listen to the radio talk shows?
If not, let me fill you in, its ok to drive and listen to a CD or radio. Thats why the manufactures put them in the cars.
I am shocked that one person on this thread doesn't know of Stephen Hawkins and another thinks he is American.
If your knowledge of text to speech software is as lacking as your knowledge of the world over the last 40 years, your advice will not be heeded.
Stephen Hawkins is English and is one of the most famous scientists of the 20th century.
Ohh dear! Ohh dear! Did you mean Professor Stephen W. Hawking? If so, I'm shocked, totally shocked that you wouldn't know how to spell the name of "one of the most famous scientists of the 20th century." Even more shocked that you would try a little mud slinging in my direction - nice try though - I set that one up when I saw the original post and I just knew some poor schmuck would fall for it. Hard luck it was you!
Im putting the inordinate level of biting down to new years cobwebs.
To the OP, scanning and getting a reader will be too time consuming. Take it from a few posters, including myself, who may have more experience and thought about it and even tried it.
As to listening to it in a car, try the following, you can download mp3 comedy shows from the web, burn to cd, watch your concentration drop as you concentrate on the words, rather than as mentioned above, background music. I stopped listening to the shows after a couple of near misses.
I would imagine study material would even have a higher level of concentration as youre forcing yourself to absorb words, meanings and deductions so not recommended.
I am studying at the moment as part of my CPD (continual professional development). I drive almost 3 hours a day and would like to use this time productively.
If I could get my text books and study material converted to audio I could use my driving time as study time.
What is the best way of converting my text books to CD?
Your CPD isn't in inter-personal skills and lessons in avoiding condescension is it? Good luck with it!