What about freeamp?

Also, there's a set of perl modules for smil (see attached message).

On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Peter Toneby wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 03:17:48PM -0000, Saqib Shaikh wrote:
> > While only an idea,
> > 
> > I have considered writing a digital talking book player for my final year
> > project.  I'm not sure how hard this will be, but if it is within my
> > technical grasp to do an initial version I will do it!
> 
> It shouldn't be to hard for you as a CS-student, I've got a start for
> one, but I'm missing a (free) mp3-library with good support for
> searching on timecodes in the mp3-file, this is needed to support DTBs
> in a good way. I've only found a non-free lib :(.
> 
> In general since everyhting is XML-based it's fairly easy to implement a
> simple reader that presents a lynxlike UI and that plays the music, but
> since you might want to add more UI-types, such as speech, linebased
> (like ed), and even a full graphical GUI (hey, we seeing people does
> enjoy DTB as much as you blind guys do, and we like our GUIs (most of us
> at least) :), and there is much more that can be added, the project can
> grow quite a bit out of hand...
> 
> /Peter, who has to little time, and to many projects...
> 

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