Listening to NPR.org storiesForum: Multimedia Topic: Listening to NPR.org stories started by: newOldUser Posted by newOldUser on May 26 2006,23:45
As much as I like NPR I do wish their website allowed you to listen to stories in mp3 format (or OGG would be nice also). It seems that you have your choice of Real Player (smil file) or Windows Media PLayer (wax file) format.Is there an easy way to listen to one of these formats using XMMS or MPlayer? Here's a sample story page: < http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5434687 > Posted by piccolo on May 27 2006,10:49
I'm learning english but I do not understand nothing from that I listen. I have not advance due I live inside a community that not speaks english. To exercise my sense of hearing I need read the exact text from that I listen.Do know you any web site with audio and respective text from english stories? Posted by pr0f3550r on May 27 2006,11:56
I click on the link: page not found
Posted by piccolo on May 27 2006,14:27
I have visited the link without problems.I listen from that web site so: Download the npr5210.smil file from link "Listen" about "Teens Turn 'Repeller' into Adult-Proof Ringtone" to, for example /home/dsl/myplaylist folder. Then following commands: cd /home/dsl/myplaylist mplayer -playlist npr5210.smil Posted by desnotes on May 27 2006,14:32
If you are interested in reading/hearing English at the same time I would recommend installing a voice plugin to your browser and then have it 'read' pages to you while you follow aong. I know that Opera has a XHTML/Voice plugin and I would be surprised if FireFox did not have something similar.desNotes Posted by piccolo on May 27 2006,15:08
Many thanks Desnotes, interesting idea.I'm using Festival as text to speech synthesizer but I did not think at a plug-in for Firefox. Other question. Do know anyone how to change the timming between synthesized words? Posted by newOldUser on May 28 2006,13:58
Thanks for the ideas but I've had no luck so far.I've tried the mplayer -playlist filename.smil but all I get is error messages about not being able to open the URL. I'm using a frugal install of DSL 2.3 with the standard mplayer from the myDSL library Posted by piccolo on May 28 2006,22:02
Sorry, I did cheat. I used mplayer on another Linux distro to listen the .smil file.Later, I will try using mplayer from MyDSL on DSL v2.3 ... Posted by piccolo on June 06 2006,13:24
Update: Arrrrggggggggg I can't play that .smil file using Mplayer on DSL
Posted by dtf on June 18 2006,02:48
There is a uci realplayer that allows you to listen to NPR which might not be exactly what you are looking for but if you want to listen to NPR smil files it does work.
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