Speakwire: RSS autocasting
Speakwire allows you to listen to an RSS feed from the selection on offer or type in the URL of your favourite feed.
Their website notes that the feed URL must end in .rss or .xml…damn mine ends in /feed…doesn’t work for Feedburner feeds either.
…an earlier blog post referred to audio feeds (4th paragraph).
From their website:
“Autocasting” is an automated form of podcasting that allows bloggers and blog readers to generate audio versions of text blogs from RSS feeds. Autocasting software uses XML parsers, TTS (text-to-speech) engines, and audio conversion utilities to convert text blogs into audio files that can be placed on a blog for download, synchronized to a portable audio device, or played on a desktop computer…”
…more on their help page.
As I understand you can select several of their suggested feeds and collect these in a box…if you click “Remember my feeds” your favourite feeds will always be in this box waiting to be listened.
If it does work for your blog, I wonder if their could be a way to put an audio version feed of your blog as a link on your blog sidebar…this way people could read or listen to your feed.
…or even a link on your blog that goes to Speakwire to listen to your blog.
They do say, “…you can then make a blogcast and link back to our site to let others hear it”.
…early days yet!
Is this someone Bloglines could partner with…so you have a choice to read your feeds or listen to your feeds in your favourite RSS reader…listening to feeds on your mobile phone RSS reader makes sense.
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Hmm, you know there’s no reason we can’t let you give your feed a URL that ends in “.xml” or whatever you’d like. Right now, we filter out the “.”, but I’m going to change that right now in the code so it’s an allowed character.
Eric Lunt
CTO, FeedBurner
Comment by Eric Lunt — June 8, 2005 @ 12:32 pm
If you are interested in a service that reads RSS/XML files for your blog, please check out http://www.talkr.com
Talkr offers a similar service to Speakwire and has a more natural sounding audio feed for your blog. Check it out and if you have any questions, please feel free to shoot me an email!
dliloia@talkr.com
Comment by Dave — June 29, 2005 @ 2:12 am
Thanks Dave,
I’ve already checked you guys out!
Chris Brooks also left a comment on this post.
Comment by Johnt — June 29, 2005 @ 2:48 am