I’ve listened to Phil Torrone’s Engadget podcast; he introduced FeedSpeaker, a program that takes an RSS feed and encodes an MP3 of a text-to-voice trans… audition? Transliteration? (If transcription is a text-to-text copy, what would be the equivalent of text-to-voice?) I’ve included a sample of a converted, recent Slashdot feed, and if the link doesn’t work, try finding it on the WOYP group at Yahoo Groups. The program uses the .NET 1.1 framework and the native Microsoft Speech API (SAPI) in WinXP. Don’t worry, links are provided at FeedSpeaker to get all the packages.
Thoughts? I like it. It worked surprisingly well for Slashdot, PPC, and WOYP. The voice is a robotic sounding Microsoft Sam (think Stephen Hawkings.) As a matter of fact, I realized PocketPCThoughts already posted about FeedSpeaker only when I heard it after a conversion.
UPDATE: Oops. I guess I was listening to a PPCThoughts news entry about Dragon Speech and not about FeedReader. Sorry if people got confused looking for it at pocketpcthoughts.com.
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