Saturday, February 18, 2006

HEAR David Faucheux's TEXT postings--via a new feed for your iTunes or other software

We're experimenting with the TalkR service. In a fairly natural-sounding female voice, TalkR will read you the texts that generally accompany David Faucheux's audio entries. You can still hear David himself by clicking on the usual icons from Audioblogger. Now, however, even if David simply posts text, you'll still be able to hear an audio.

Currently this wrinkle is available only via an experimental audio feed, rather than by clicking on the audio icons at the bottom of each post in David F's blog. We hope to fix that.


Here's the URL to copy into your iTunes or other software: https://www.talkr.com/app/cast_pods.app?feed_id=11187

The main TeleRead blog, focused on e-books, is also using the TalkR service. The feed for voice synthesized text is at https://www.talkr.com/app/cast_pods.app?feed_id=10812 and an explanation is at http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=4248