My blog was just activated for a sweet service I recently came across called Odiogo. Basically, the service runs the feed of your blog through a rather robust text-to-speech engine and generates a podcast feed automatically. There isn’t really much to it. You submit your site and wait for an activation email with all the info you need.
Text-to-speech has come a long way from my first experiences with it about 10 or so years ago. Listening to my own podcast, I’m finding that the voice is not annoying and I actually enjoyed listening (being that it was my own content may have helped). I’ve only noticed a few minor pronunciation bugs, such as “plug-ins” pronounced “ploo-gins.” It would be great if I could select from different voices or even somehow create a voice based on my own voice.
An important tip for anyone interested in setting up an Odiogo podcast of their blog. The service reads your RSS/ATOM feed, so if you have your blog set to only show an excerpt of your posts Odiogo will only read the excerpt. I made that mistake and my first few posts are only speaking the excerpt.
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