Courtesy of Dennis Howlett, I discovered a new service that might be useful to readers of this blog. It's called Odiogo and converts the text I write to speech.
At the top of each post you'll see a small button called 'Listen Now.' When clicked you can listen to what was written instead of reading, and you can send the output to iTunes or another MP3 player. I have also included a subscription button which is at the bottom right hand side of the sidebar. That way you can receive posts as a podcast if you want.
The text-to-speech 'translation is near perfect. The tone and intonation is a bit electronic, so it's not quite 'human.' It also contains a six second advert for the service at the beginning of each segment but I can live with that. If in future it includes paid for advertising then I will drop it.
For now this is an experiment - let me know what you think.
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Mixed feelings Richard.
The service is great, as you say, but I can read the post a lot faster than it is spoken but on the other hand I probably take more in when I listen.
Stuart
I’ll tell you waht it is good for – listening to your own post to make sure it reads OK!
That’s always hard when 1) this is usually written ina hurry 2) there is no copy editor
Best
Richard
Novel idea if it could be trained with author’s voice I can see massive potential on social networks and dial up porn.
Posted details of yr experiment on my blog and got some intersting comments on the origins of the product.