I'm the greatest tyro regarding all this open-source world, so please, be patient hehe. I need an app that reads (out loud) me my PDFs (even the scanned ones). I'm using Zorin OS 15 Ultimate. Gespeaker and Espeaker only read TEXT docs. I want to avoid the converting part =( THANKS!
I have no experience in this, but perhaps this thread can help provide a workable solution:
It references these two packages in addition to Okular
https://www.howtoinstall.me/ubuntu/18-04/jovie/
https://www.howtoinstall.me/ubuntu/18-04/kmouth/
I am not sure how that sets up and works, but installation is a good starting point.
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Convert the .pdf to .txt or use an OCR (Adobe PDF Reader) to copy and past the text manually into a document, then use an AI text to speech generator to convert the text into voice. Make sure to choose an AI that has a vast voice library and supports many languages with different accent options