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Posted: May 26 2006,23:45 QUOTE
As much as I like NPR I do wish their website allowed you to listen to stories in mp3 format (or OGG would be nice also).  It seems that you have your choice of Real Player (smil file) or Windows Media PLayer (wax file) format.

Is there an easy way to listen to one of these formats using XMMS or MPlayer?

Here's a sample story page: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5434687

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Posted: May 27 2006,10:49 QUOTE
I'm learning english but I do not understand nothing from that I listen. I have not advance due I live inside a community that not speaks english. To exercise my sense of hearing I need read the exact text from that I listen.
Do know you any web site with audio and respective text from english stories?

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Posted: May 27 2006,11:56 QUOTE
I click on the link: page not found

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Posted: May 27 2006,14:27 QUOTE
I have visited the link without problems.
I listen from that web site so:

Download the npr5210.smil file from link "Listen" about "Teens Turn 'Repeller' into Adult-Proof Ringtone" to, for example /home/dsl/myplaylist folder. Then following commands:

cd /home/dsl/myplaylist
mplayer -playlist npr5210.smil

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Posted: May 27 2006,14:32 QUOTE
If you are interested in reading/hearing English at the same time I would recommend installing a voice plugin to your browser and then have it 'read' pages to you while you follow aong. I know that Opera has a XHTML/Voice plugin and I would be surprised if FireFox did not have something similar.

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