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Educational Courses in Digital Format?

Posted by Cliff on from the taking-your-lecturer-with-you dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "I own a portable MP3 player. Recently, my friend showed me several MP3 files he ripped that teach Japanese. I spend much of my day commuting to and from work. Using my portable player to learn new topics strikes me as a good use of that time. Can anyone recommend any educational audio files?"

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  1. some science and a little philosophy? by Chilles · · Score: 4, Funny

    Try finding these files somewhere.

  2. Text to speech synthesis by Frantactical+Fruke · · Score: 2, Funny

    How about taking a text to speech synthesizer and have it read out your man and info files to mp3s.

    Hours of fun listening to robot voice going:

    "NAME
    bison - GNU Project parser generator (yacc replacement)

    SYNOPSIS
    bison [ -b file-prefix ] [ --file-prefix=file-prefix ] [
    -d ] [ --defines=defines-file ] [ -g ] [ ...." etc. ad nauseam...