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You have no idea how wonderful, and liberating addaptive tech has been for people with print disabilities! I'm really grateful to Pai for helping to make my site more accessable.
I hope that this information he has provided here will be something lots of folks use on their sites. Even if the voice bugs you, if you added this feature to you blog "I" and people like me will be able to listen, and we'll likely be fine with the voice.
I understand what you're saying. The realistic sound of the voice has improved drastically over the years but it still has a way to go, I agree. Still, the feedback I've gotten from those that really want/need this feature has been extremely positive. I think it's because they're used to the older technologies that sounded much more like robots than this one. Obviously, nothing beats the quality of real human voices. For that, you'll have to do a real podcast or use tools like Utterli.com which can publish your audio posts via cell phone automatically.
Pai
@Genevieve: we will be releasing very soon brand new voices (male/female and different accents). Stay tuned!
That's great news on the upcoming voice selections!! I am really loving Odiogo, I hope lots of people put it on their sites. Is there a way to have Odiogo on other pages or is it designed for blog posts specifically?
Thanks for replying to the good questions/comments! Also, thanks for the great news of upcoming features.
more power.
You might also be interested in my site SpokenText.net.
SpokenText is a free online text to speech converter. Using it you can easily create audio recordings of any text content. You can use our site to record books, articles, web pages, your papers class notes or any other text content you want to have available to you in audio format. So that you can listen while you commute or exercise. We have many voices and support English, French, Spanish and German text to speech conversion. And we support podcast feeds for use in iTunes.
We have many sharing options for your recordings and have a Firefox 2 extension to easily record any text you find on the web.
The site was designed for the print disabled so it is very accessible.
Thanks for spreading the word about this technology and how it can benefit the print disabled.
Mark McKay
Designer/Developer of SpokenText.net
The voice on Rachel's blog sounds great ... with inflection and everything. I'm impressed! Thank you for sharing this info. As I write, I have just signed up.
http://techsidestories.com/2008/12/14/podcast-i...
Listening to podcasts while I am doing my morning cardio should help keep my butt on that bike.
Text-to-speech tech is just going to get better - it already has made huge leaps.
On one blog I received my odiogo ID and I am getting error that the stroy is not ready and it has been an entire day.
On one blog I did not recvie a odiogo ID at all and no email. I have emailed support. anyone has any suggestions. It did except my feed which is with feed burner..maybe that is the problem.
Appreciate any suggestions to fix this I love the idea of listen to the post.
Kim Dion
http://blogsoftwarepro.com
I am looking to enable an Odiogo like feature on my wordpress.com blog but I can't seem to find any existing widgets or way of doing this. It seems that Odiogo is not supported on this free blog platform.
Can you suggest another alternative way that I can get the same functionality without having to change blogging platforms?
Thanks in advance.
Thanks.