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+turn a perry rhodan epub from beam-ebooks into an audio file using ivona voices
+
+install wine and set the windows version to windows 98
+
+install sapi 5.1:
+
+	$ wine start sapi51.msi
+
+install vc2005
+
+	$ ./winetricks vcrun2005
+
+install voices
+
+	$ wine ivona2_installer_pak_hans_marlene.exe
+
+run epub2audio
+
+	epub2audio.py Perry_Rhodan-Paket_12_Der_Schwarm_Teil_2__Die_Altmutanten_12.epub 0570