I need advice about preparing books for my text to speech program. When I get the program to read the book. It reads everything. Book publishers seem to want to follow the printed book format in their e-books. This means That every four paragraphs there is a listing of "book title, author, chapter, page number etc." As if it is a printed book with all this stuff at the top and bottom of each new page. A person just glances at this useless info and ignores it. Text to speech reads it all out loud. Its like advertising in the middle of a TV program, except worse because it garbles the meaning of what I'm listing to . And it inserts often in the middle of a sentence, sometimes in the middle of a word. I include this example. {Those teachers spoke intently to their students, giving last-10 | P a g e Spirit Bound – Richelle Mead minute words of advice.} It should read [Those teachers spoke intently to their students, giving last-minute words of advice.] Is there any program that will automatically remove this surplus information. It took me 2 hrs to carefully remove 498 repetitions of this. Each repetition had different page numbers, so "search and replace" does not work. I have wasted hundreds of hours fumbling around with books getting them ready to be listened too. Please Help!
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I have never used it myself, but I found a lot of good information on google, did you do a search and was it any help? Also, have you thought about using audibles?
I have hundreds of .txt .pdf .e-book. I don't want to pay for the same product twice. And I like the computer read version. Audible is not a solution to my problem. It is a problem all on its own. What did you search for in google, My searches turned up nothing about removing superfluous data from e-books. Thank-you Scott