This is a prototype of an Android app which takes a pdf and creates an AudioBook.

• [Android 2.2] the device should be running 2.2 or better
• [TextToSpeech] is turned on (see Settings)
• to have comercial quality audio you can use Loquendo it's a commercial voice which costs about 5-6$ (search Market)
• [Voice Recognition] is turned on (see Settings)
• [Internet Connection] You need an internet connection to use the Voice Recognizer, and to extract the text from the PDF.
• [File Manager] a file manager such as OI File Manager (search Market)
• [Mind Mapping] a mind mapping app such as Thinking Space (search market)

• None

Want to contribute? Great!

1. Fork it
2. Create a branch (git checkout -b my_copy)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am "added some more regex to the text cleaner")
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my_copy)
5. Create an Issue with a link to your branch

• Download the source code
• Create an Android project and import the source files
• Install it onto your device

• Check the device settings for Voice input & output to be sure that TextToSpeech and VoiceRecognition are enabled
• Save some PDFs onto your device via the internet or SDCARD
• Open the file manager, browse to your pdf, click on it and a menu will appear allowing you to register the pdf into your audio book list
• Alternatively, you can open the application and listen to the instructions

PDFtoAudioBook is released under the Apache License.