Talkr: text to audio feed
The other day I mentioned Speakwire (converts your blog to audio and reads it to you)…by the way, somewhere down the bottom of the sidebar I have a button to listen to this blog via Speakwire.
Now another tool has come my way via rss4lib, called Talkr.
From their website:
“Talkr provides a service that allows you to listen to your favorite text-only news sources rather than read them. If you can point us to an RSS feed (a machine-readable version of your favorite blog or news source) we will convert that feed from text to speech.
Talkr can also provide you with a podcast of your favorite news sources.”
Seems like a similar service to Speakwire, with the added feature that it generates a podcast feed of your favourite blog so you can track updates in you RSS reader instead of going to Talkr.
It’s a podcast with a difference as you don’t record an audio of yourself, it’s a computer generated version of the text in your blog post (spoken by a robot!)
It also has more robust RSS reader features such as, show all posts, or keep (save a post).
I’ve added a Talkr podcast button to the subscription section in this blog…so now you can download the audio version of this blog via your podcast reader.
Check out the Talkr blog for more.
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Good morning, and thanks for your post on Talkr.
The link that you have posted to Talkr requires that users create a free membership and login. While I don’t want to discourage anyone from doing that, you can use the following link to get people directly to a podcast of your blog:
http://www.talkr.com/app/cast_pods.app?feed_id=1251
Thanks,
Chris
Comment by Chris Brooks — June 13, 2005 @ 5:38 pm