Casey Ontivares (he's in the next cublicle down) sent me an email with a link to odiogo.odiogo offers a free service for bloggers so I signed up my own blog. The idea is that it takes the text in one's blog and converts it to voice. And it also provides an RSS feed so you can subscribe to a blog and listen to the computer voice recognition of it. It is said to be “'Near-human' quality text-to-speech" and IMO it's as good as any other computer generated speech I've listened to.
Unfortunately, it isn't working properly. It took about ten of my previous entries and made ~30 seconds of MP3 audio out of them and it provides an RSS feed that shows up in my podcasts section of iTunes but does not pull in any media. on this page. Those 30 second MP3s are eaten up with 12 seconds of an odiogo introduction. Not mention that thirty seconds merely covers a couple two sentences in an entry. If this worked, or if it does work and I'm mucking it up somehow, it could have great potential for ADA.
It is working for Red Herring's blogs because I have successfully subscribed to the RSS feed and have received tracks for the podcast. I'll keep playing around with this to see if there's something I'm missing. If anyone reading this can point me in the right direction to get this working, please email me.
My problem is the audio, it won't read my blog post all the way through the end. It stops at 38 or 40 seconds. I've emailed them and I am still waiting for reply or any assistance.
Stuart, where you able to solve the problem?
Thanks,
Jasmine
http://mirrorsinframes.blogspot.com
I've been using Odiogo on my blog since last September with no problems until the last couple of days. I haven't changed anything on my blog so I don't think that it's anything I've done. Either they're having problems of some sort, or they've changed something that's causing the problem. It used to read the whole blog post. Now all that it's doing is givng the Odiogo intro, and none of my post, not even the title.