Too much effort reading my ramblings ? Want to listen instead ? Now you can !!
Courtesy of the excellent odiogo, the excellent text to speech service. This is a free service that bloggers can use, it takes your RSS feed, splits it out to each separate post and then creates a MP3 for the post.
The text-to-speech quality is really good, only about 1 in 50 words is corrupt/unintelligible – easily high enough quality to get a good rendition of the post. Obviously it depends on the content of the post, I have not yet listened to a post with lots of sample code or the like, but I expect it would be pretty hard going.
Get the audio for this blog here. You can even subscribe in iTunes. I will also update the site to include the links in the sidebar.
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Hi Ken,
You might also want to have a look at http://www.vocalfruits.com.
With this new web based podcasting service, any registered user can create a podcast from any RSS feed in no time. Other useful and innovative services include aggregating a number of RSS feeds into one podcast or creating your personal podcasts that you can update by emailing to your personal VocalFruits address. The service also provides for a web browser version and a mobile version ideal for listening to content on a mobile phone and other mobile devices. VocalFruits is equally a useful application for content owners to provide their readers with an audio output of their content. Hope this helps.