On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Beddingfield, Allen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:allen@ua.edu" target="_blank">allen@ua.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
The obvious problem with that is that listening to it read in a robotic text-to-speech converted voice is going to get old really quickly.<br></blockquote></div><div><br></div>Yes, once I listened to Adam Smith's _The Wealth of Nations_ in my car as read by the software called "Festival" in about 2002. Paaaaaaaaaaiinful.<div>
<br></div><div>If you *really* like that idea, though, the simple innards of my localcast program might be of interest to you in any attempts to hack together something similar.</div><div><br></div><div> <a href="http://noserose.net/e/localcast/">http://noserose.net/e/localcast/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>That said, I bet it's worth checking for text-to-speech features of phone apps. I like BeyondPod, and although I haven't tried the feature, I see that it exists:</div><div><br></div><div> <a href="http://www.beyondpod.mobi/resources.htm">http://www.beyondpod.mobi/resources.htm</a><br clear="all">
<div><br></div>-- <br> Ed Cashin <<a href="mailto:ecashin@noserose.net">ecashin@noserose.net</a>><br> <a href="http://noserose.net/e/">http://noserose.net/e/</a><br> <a href="http://www.coraid.com/">http://www.coraid.com/</a>
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