Audio Book Reader: Read .epub, .rtf, and .txt as audio books!

What My Project Does

This program is for the Linux terminal.

It breaks text files into lines and reads them out loud one line at a time.

Your progress for each file is stored in a .json file.

You can choose to skip to a certain line by passing it as a parameter when running the script.

Please make an issue or a pull request if you think any changes are needed.

Thanks!

Target Audience (e.g., Is it meant for production, just a toy project, etc.)

Anyone who uses Linux and wants to have a text file read out loud to them.

Comparison (A brief comparison explaining how it differs from existing alternatives.)

I haven't looked into alternatives in this space, I just made it on a whim.

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Is there a way to pause and resume? Also, speed up playback?

Right now the only features are skip line, save progress, and start from line.

Pause and resume are already implemented by pressing Control + c to close the program (pause).

If you relaunch the program it will pick up from the most recent line (resume).

Speed up and slow down are not possible with mpg123.

If I switch to ffplay it would work.

For example:

`ffplay -v quiet -nodisp -af "atempo=2" temp.mp3`

would play it back at 2x speed.

I added playback speed selection, language, accent, line width, and more today.

nice