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By: Laurent Duchastel     Montréal, Québec  
Date: Sep 06,2013 at 02:40

Topic with no relation whatsoever with ZTree
Just need to share a sense of great satisfaction :-)

Yesterday, I drove back and forth Montreal-Quebec-Montreal all alone to give a class (±500km).
The problem is that I really really really had to read few important documents before the end of the day.

Since documents were under PDF format, I:

- Connected my Bluetooth headset to my Android phone
- Opened PDFs with EZPDFReader
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=udk.android.reader
- Activated EZPDFReader Voice-Reading using TTS good voice quality SVOX
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.svox.classic

I then "listened" for four hours all the docs instead of reading them as usual
The experience was very interesting

- Reading was excellent most of the time (very good French voice)
- Driving was very pleasant (I didn't have at all the feeling of "loosing my time")
- I perhaps could have read everything in 40 minutes, but my feeling is that I integrated content much better

I am both happy with my "discovery" and amazed technology advanced so much in recent years that a cheap low-cost phone can do such things.


Laurent Duchastel

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