MARF is a general cross-platform framework with a collection of algorithms for audio (voice, speech, and sound) and natural language text analysis and recognition along with sample applications (identification, NLP, etc.) of its use, implemented in Java.
Summary:
Your eyes are tired of looking into the tablet or cell-phone screen reading ebooks? You have difficulty reading from LCD screen specially in a driving vehicle? This software is for you!
It converts your PDF files to MP3 audio books.
Special Features (Compared to similar projects):
Each page is in a separate MP3 file.
Created MP3 files have ID3v2 tags showing Book name and page number.
Multi-threaded conversion, means all CPU cores will be used thus multiple times faster conversion.
VoxForge collects user-submitted speech audio files for the creation of Acoustic Models for Free and Open Source Speech Recognition Engines such as HTK, Julius, ISIP and Sphinx.