Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I like to listen the explanation of Perl Modules. Especially what they are useful for and different interfaces they provide. XML::Twig or List::MoreUtils could be good candidates for this, for example. Anything available?

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Re: Audio for Perl Modules
by moritz (Cardinal) on Oct 13, 2009 at 11:09 UTC
    There's http://yapc.tv/ which collects various perl talks. I don't know how easy or hard it is to just listen to those without seeing any slides, though.
    Perl 6 - links to (nearly) everything that is Perl 6.
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Re: Audio for Perl Modules
by marto (Cardinal) on Oct 13, 2009 at 10:53 UTC

    Certain operating systems provide text to speech functionality for accessibility purposes. Perhaps something like a Firefox extension would suffice, if you use firefox of course. Failing that Text to Speech may be of interest.

    Martin

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      You could also use Excel for this (if you are in a Windows environment) - see the following code 

      #!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use warnings;

#use Win32::OLE qw(in with);
use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Excel';

my $Excel = Win32::OLE->new('Excel.Application', 'Quit'); 

my $text = "Hello!";

$Excel->Speech->speak($text);
exit 0;

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      Hope this helps
      Rata
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