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Thread #101137   Message #2038119
Posted By: JohnInKansas
28-Apr-07 - 02:27 PM
Thread Name: Tech: New Text to Speech (T2S) use
Subject: RE: Tech: New Text to Speech (T2S) use
G Mike -

Technology Review is a long-established magazine and has been on the web for quite a while. A free signup/login or just a visit to the site gets you some of the articles, but at least in the past a few articles may require a paid subscription, or individual article purchase (or a degree from MIT and participation in the Alumni Association).

The AudioDizer is a "student generated startup company" presumedly based on or developed out of some class/project activity at MIT where Technology Review originates.

I was a bit disappointed at the sparse information at the AudioDizer web page, but it appears their main targeted customer base is websites that may want to provide the audio conversion.

If you click any of the "real articles" at the magazine site, you can try out the voice version - as you may have done. You can click for audio on any individual article, or you can sign up for an RSS feed for related stuff, I believe. You can visit the site any time.

I haven't looked at any back issues to see if the audio feature has been automatically applied there.

John