[ale] OT how do you turn a blog into a private podcast / mp3 / ogg

[Ed Cashin]

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Beddingfield, Allen <allen at ua.edu> wrote:

> 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.
>

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.

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.

  http://noserose.net/e/localcast/

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:

  http://www.beyondpod.mobi/resources.htm

-- 
  Ed Cashin <ecashin at noserose.net>
  http://noserose.net/e/
  http://www.coraid.com/
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