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Convert Text Blogs to Podcasts

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  • Created: Jul 18, 2006, 4:45 pm
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The Idea

A service which converts selected blogs from text-based content to podcasts with spoken audio content. The service will offer a free version that uses a Text-to-speech engine to automatically convert the text into a machine generated voice, or a paid version that charges a subscription fee but provides high-quality audio as spoken by a human being. A portion of the subscription fee will be paid back to the original blogger who authored the content. Podcasting and blogging are really two different faces of essentially the same thing, but podcasting has a higher barrier to entry in terms of time and resource requirements. The proposed service would be a way for bloggers to take the next step towards podcasting but without having to incur any of the costs. It would be similar to what audible.com does for books and syndicated news, but with an emphasis on blogs.

I thought of this idea when I was...

... was reading a really interesting industry blog, but finding myself skimming the content because it is so long (about a 3 page blog entry), and would much rather have this in spoken audio format so I could listen to it on my ipod while multitasking (driving, walking, etc).


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techguy
techguy Posted: August 5, 2006, 1:11 am

Here's 2 examples that I know are doing this:
www.talkr.com
www.feed2podcast.com

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branchcut Posted: August 9, 2006, 11:29 am

RE: techguy. Cool, didn't know about those services. They seem to lack two things I mentioned: blogs as spoken by humans, and a revenue model where the original blogger gets any money.

 

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