The Empty House

This is an HTML Application wrapper of the BBC production of "The Empty House" at YouTube.

Download:

http://www.box.net/shared/6n2eypijh0

Download ~ extract ~ double-click TheEmptyHouse.hta in the MyItzyBits folder...

SCREENSHOT - Example extract:

SCREENSHOT - Example use:

Shakespearean Comedies(all but one)

These are from 'Theater in Video' website. Found it via my local library links.

http://mplib.ativ.alexanderstreet.com.ezproxy.hclib.org/video/playlists/view/3435

Shakespearean Tragedies (all but two)

These are from 'Theater in Video' website. Found it via my local library links.

The version of Macbeth is the one I first saw in school--I still think it one of the best(next to Orson Welles). Most are BBC productions -- exception being Sir Lawrence O's Hamlet:

http://mplib.ativ.alexanderstreet.com.ezproxy.hclib.org/video/playlists/view/3434/5

Rom2DecBG ~ pass old-time Bible ref. to BibleGateway...

Some of the works I'm reading in Google Books have old-time, that is, "Roman Numeral" scripture ref.  This applet converts to decimal and passes to Bible Gateway. It's not "done". I've only coded for references I've found or come across. But, I'll keep expanding it. After downloads ~ run program -- it expands to mySpiritualGP folder. Drag the Rom2DecBG.exe item to your Quick Launch. Then it's a matter of high-lighting some text and clicking the app...

Download:
http://www.box.net/shared/za9it1zkcq

SCREENSHOTS - Extraction Setup:

SCREENSHOTS - Use:


Link to the Googlebook "Works of the Rev. John Newton":
http://books.google.com/books?id=BMM9AAAAIAAJ&vq=ring&pg=PA19#v=snippet&q=ring&f=false

Open Office Running Total

In a spreadsheet I often wanted to create a 'running total' -- here's one way using SUMIF...

EXAMPLE:

Northanger Abbey - Chapter 1 Notes

Austen mentions two items given to young women ~ girls to learn:

"Beggar's Petition"

The Hare and Many Friends

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

This is an HTA (HTML Application) that wraps the Project Gutenberg etext and plays it back using SAPI - TTS.

1) Download the self-extracting file to your desktop or "My Documents" folder
2) Run the file to extract the book
3) Double-click the file_pg_etext.hta file.
4) Click a chapter link and 'play' ~ 'stop'

Download:
http://www.box.net/shared/0a099i2ddj

See also: How to make a TTS Book, HTML Applications, Literature, Librivox Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

SCREENSHOT - Example of extraction and use...

CI 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

This is a wrapper for the Classics Illustrated comic #47 found at http://www.tkinter.smig.net/map.htm or http://www.tkinter.smig.net/ClassicsIllustrated/index.htm   

Also, for audio renditions of the book check out the Librivox recording and my how to make a TTS book.

Download:
http://www.box.net/shared/74u4kjen78

SCREENSHOT:

The Song of Hiawatha by H.W.Longfellow

This is an HTA (HTML Application) that wraps the Project Gutenberg etext and plays it back using SAPI - TTS.

1) Download the self-extracting file to your desktop or "My Documents" folder
2) Run the file to extract the book
3) Double-click the file_pg_etext.hta file.
4) Click a chapter link and 'play' ~ 'stop'

Download:
http://www.box.net/shared/ryty2k9r3h

See also: How to make a TTS Book, HTML Applications, Literature

This is definitely a text that's best listened to
spoken vs TTS -- try:
Librivox recordings.
SCREENSHOT - Example of extraction and use...

SCREENSHOT - Regular Expressions & Roman Numerals...

Most Gutenberg texts have 'Chapter I' or 'CHAPTER I' type divisions.
This one did not. To use my TTS applet I had to prepend the 'Chapter'
text in front of the Roman Numeral text divisions. I thought it might
be helpful to others so I'm posting 'how-to' here as well. I used the
SemWare Editor to accomplish this.

CI The Song of Hiawatha by H.W.Longfellow

This is a wrapper for the Classics Illustrated comic #057 found at http://www.kelvi.net/books/comics/ -- I'm trying to find who to contact to make request to deep-link to their site.  If this post goes down -- probably means I didn't find ~ get permission.

Also, for audio renditions of the book check out the Librivox recording and my how to make a TTS book.

Download:
http://www.box.net/shared/ryty2k9r3h

SCREENSHOT:

Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne

This is an HTA (HTML Application) that wraps the Project Gutenberg etext and plays it back using SAPI - TTS.

1) Download the self-extracting file to your desktop or "My Documents" folder
2) Run the file to extract the book
3) Double-click the file_pg_etext.hta file.
4) Click a chapter link and 'play' ~ 'stop'

Download:
http://www.box.net/shared/pa1z2dvhiu

See also: How to make a TTS Book, HTML Applications, Literature

SCREENSHOT - example extraction and use:

CI Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne

This is a wrapper for the Classics Illustrated comic #138 found at http://www.tkinter.smig.net/ClassicsIllustrated/index.htm.

Also, for audio renditions of the book check out the Librivox recording and my how to make a TTS book.

Download:
http://www.box.net/shared/mxvzs8o1zi

SCREENSHOT:

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

This is an HTA (HTML Application) that wraps the Project Gutenberg etext and plays it back using SAPI - TTS.

1) Download the self-extracting file to your desktop or "My Documents" folder
2) Run the file to extract the book
3) Double-click the file_pg_etext.hta file.
4) Click a chapter link and 'play' ~ 'stop'

Download:
http://www.box.net/shared/egejr9ktyj

See also: How to make a TTS Book, HTML Applications, Literature

SCREENSHOT - example extraction and use:

This is an HTA (HTML Application) that wraps the Project Gutenberg etext and plays

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

This is an HTA (HTML Application) that wraps the Project Gutenberg etext and plays it back using SAPI - TTS.

1) Download the self-extracting file to your desktop or "My Documents" folder
2) Run the file to extract the book
3) Double-click the file_pg_etext.hta file.
4) Click a chapter link and 'play' ~ 'stop'

Download:
http://www.box.net/shared/9ztlrz987c

See also: How to make a TTS Book, HTML Applications, Literature

SCREENSHOT - example extraction and use:

Persuasion by Jane Austen

This is an HTA (HTML Application) that wraps the Project Gutenberg etext and plays it back using SAPI - TTS.

1) Download the self-extracting file to your desktop or "My Documents" folder
2) Run the file to extract the book
3) Double-click the file_pg_etext.hta file.
4) Click a chapter link and 'play' ~ 'stop'

Download:
http://www.box.net/shared/01lkis2co3

See also: How to make a TTS Book, HTML Applications, Literature


SCREENSHOT - example extraction and use:

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

This is an HTA (HTML Application) that wraps the Project Gutenberg etext and plays it back using SAPI - TTS.

1) Download the self-extracting file to your desktop or "My Documents" folder
2) Run the file to extract the book
3) Double-click the file_pg_etext.hta file.
4) Click a chapter link and 'play' ~ 'stop'

Download:
http://www.box.net/shared/m7c2ncimvi

See also: How to make a TTS Book, HTML Applications, Literature


SCREENSHOT - example extraction and use:

Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne

This is a wrapper for the Classics Illustrated comic #69 found at jv.gilead.org.il -- I think the files on that site may be incomplete -- I've found only 26 of what I suspect originally were 52 images.

Try a Google of "Around the World in 80 Days Scribd" -- I found the full version on that site.  Also, for audio renditions of the book check out the Librivox recording.

Download:
http://www.box.net/shared/125s2a412u

See also: How to make a TTS Book, HTML Applications, Literature 

SCREENSHOT:

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

This is an HTA (HTML Application) that wraps the Project Gutenberg etext and plays it back using SAPI - TTS.

1) Download the self-extracting file to your desktop or "My Documents" folder
2) Run the file to extract the book
3) Double-click the file_pg_etext.hta file.
4) Click a chapter link and 'play' ~ 'stop'

Download:
http://www.box.net/shared/p7sf0ec4zu

See also: How to make a TTS Book, HTML Applications, Literature

SCREENSHOT - Example of extraction and use...

Lady Susan by Jane Austen

This is an HTA (HTML Application) that wraps the Project Gutenberg etext and plays it back using SAPI - TTS.

1) Download the self-extracting file to your desktop or "My Documents" folder
2) Run the file to extract the book
3) Double-click the file_pg_etext.hta file.
4) Click a chapter link and 'play' ~ 'stop'

Download:
http://www.box.net/shared/3s1m73aevc

See also: How to make a TTS Book, HTML Applications, Literature

SCREENSHOT - Example extraction and use...

The Mysterious Island

This is an HTA (HTML Application) that wraps the Project Gutenberg etext and plays it back using SAPI - TTS.

1) Download the self-extracting file to your desktop or "My Documents" folder
2) Run the file to extract the book
3) Double-click the file_pg_etext.hta file.
4) Click a chapter link and 'play' ~ 'stop'

Download:
http://www.box.net/shared/edf5n8jg3a


See also: How to make a TTS Book, HTML Applications, Literature

SCREENSHOTS

Example 1 - Download ~ Extraction

Example 2 - The HTML Application

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

This is an HTA (HTML Application) that wraps the Project Gutenberg etext and plays it back using SAPI - TTS.

1) Download the self-extracting file to your desktop or "My Documents" folder
2) Run the file to extract the book
3) Double-click the file_pg_etext.hta file.
4) Click a chapter link and 'play' ~ 'stop'

Download:
http://www.box.net/shared/3nav6ip8n7

See also: How to make a TTS Book, HTML Applications, Literature

SCREENSHOT - Example of extraction and use...

Emma by Jane Austen as a TTSBook

This is an HTA (HTML Application) that wraps the Project Gutenberg etext and plays it back using SAPI - TTS.

1) Download the self-extracting file to your desktop or "My Documents" folder
2) Run the file to extract the book
3) Double-click the file_pg_etext.hta file.
4) Click a chapter link and 'play' ~ 'stop'

Download:
http://www.box.net/shared/essy86n2ni

See also: How to make a TTS Book, HTML Applications, Literature

SCREENSHOT - Example of extraction and use...

MakeTTSBook

Links on this post:
Around the World in 80 Days • Ben-Hur • Quo Vadis

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If you have downloaded Project Gutenberg etexts you can try this app. It uses etexts to create an HTA(HTML Application). The HTA will let you play a text back via SAPI TTS.

Download:

http://www.box.net/shared/mc51x9mda8


MakeTTSBook by Michael T. Bee is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

Based on a work at michael-t-bee-esi.blogspot.com.

Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at mailto:michael.t.bee@gmail.com.

See Also Labels for: HTML Applications, Literature

To run:
1) Double-click the file 'MakeTTSBook.hta' to run program
2) Click 'Browse' to browse to an etext file
3) Click 'MakeBook' to generate the TTS book
4) Click the resultant file_etext.hta

Notes:

The original etext is left intact -- but, is parsed by 'Chapter' or 'CHAPTER' to produce individual chapter sub-etexts. These are linked together with an file_pg_etext.HTA file. Click 'Play' to play the displayed chapter with text-to-speech('Stop' to stop TTS).

SCREEN SHOTS

Example 1 - How to run:

Example 2 - Sample Output:

Download sample etexts ~ TTS HTA:

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace
http://www.box.com/s/0224341440b8849c2ab2

Quo-Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz
http://www.box.com/s/4272b852796d168683a9

Around the World in 80 Days
http://www.box.net/shared/eg67re4lmj

A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in

A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in,
A minute to smile and an hour to weep in,
A pint of joy to a peck of trouble,
And never a laugh but the moans come double;
        And that is life!

A crust and a corner that love makes precious,
With a smile to warm and the tears to refresh us;
And joy seems sweeter when cares come after,
And a moan is the finest of foils for laughter;
        And that is life!

Dunbar