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April 02, 2004
RSS to speech to iPod? Cool!
Playing around with iSpeak It 1.5, which uses the Mac's built in text-to-speech ability to create mp3/aac files from any text source. That can include Word docs, PDFs, RTF, HTML, etc, so you could have your favorite RSS feeds converted to audio then sync'd automatically to your iPod every morning, to listen to on your commute.
May be more trouble than it's worth, but the voice simulation tech is getting good enough that I can definitely see this becoming a viable option in the near future.
Now, what really would be cool is a speech-to-blog gateway so you could just record your thoughts on the fly with any voice recorder, cell phone, or iPod with the mic kit and then have it generate the blog entries for you.
Posted by Kevin Railsback at April 2, 2004 10:49 PM
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