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Technical "Books On Tape"?

Posted by michael on from the as-opposed-to-taped-up-books dept.

Samrobb writes: "The company I work for has a fairly extensive in-house technical library, and they would like to expand to include audiobooks covering both general business topics (easy to find) and technology overviews (hard to find). Has anyone come across a company or companies that make it a point to deal in technical audiobooks? The few that we've been able to find so far have been rather unimpressive MCSE tutorials."

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  1. Technology Overviews Available from Audible by dave_aiello · · Score: 2
    Audible, Inc. publishes a lot of technology-related content in streaming audio formats. In the past, they have published presentations at conferences, speeches and speech series, audio versions of investment newsletters about technology (i.e. DEMOLetter from IDG), as well as straight-forward audiobooks.

    The problems with Audible, from your perspective, are that they distribute content electronically and the services that you see on their Web Site are aimed at individuals. In addition, they use security on some formats of their audio programs that is supposed to restrict your ability to use it on many different players.

    However, this company has changed its offerings several times since it began, and it has a loyal following among people who appreciate spoken word audio. I would recommend that your company contact Audible by phone or email and ask them if they have ever made a distribution deal with a corporate library.
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  2. Re:Alternatively... by technos · · Score: 3

    You don't have to have a PC. Pipe Festival to a file, chunk the file, burn the files to audio CD. Hell, pop a tape in the old cassette deck, slap a patch cable to the sound card and let it go until the tape stops. Stop the Festival process, switch tapes.

    My only fear is how I'm going to handle hearing ....evalevalq.q>trd!Uj:%L>061:%C>cnsvo:.... when Festival starts breaking into the Perl sample code.

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