Playing Audiobooks at a faster speed than usual

[Mario Lang]

Hi.

Some of you might know the feature of those nice and shiny hardware
DAISY Digital Talking Book players to speed up and slow down the natural
speech by a certain amount.  To bring this feature
to Linux, I've begun writting a very simple command-line mp3
player which can do this for you.
Currently, it only supports setting the tempo as a floating point
value somewhere between 0.1 (10%) and 6.0 (600%) of the original
speed.  This is done with the command-line option -t (tempo).

It can already be used nicely to listen to Audiobooks
in mp3 format.   A command like

$ yatm -t 1.2 /some/path/audiobook.mp3

should do this for you.

It can also be useful for listening to stuff like
guitar solos, if you want to figure out how they're actually
played, just play the track at about %70 speed (-t 0.7).

Where to get it?

Download the first version from http://delysid.org/yatm-0.1.0.tar.gz

Build instructions:

You'll need libmad, a MPEG audio decoder library,
libao, a cross-platform audio output library, and libsoundtouch,
a library for changing tempo/pitch/rate.  Install all three libraries,
untar the archive, changing into the yatm-0.1.0 subdirectory
and run:

./configure
make
make install

If you are using Debian, you can also run:

dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -us
sudo dpkg -i ../yatm_0.1.0-1_`dpkg --print-architecture`.deb

Any comments are welcome.

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