The International Herald Tribune voices up

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The International Herald Tribune has extended their reader toolbox with an interesting new feature: a text-to-speech podcast (via micropersuasion). All articles could be converted into podcast. You won’t hear an artificial voice, as the service relies on professional readers whose recordings have been converted into language dictionaries.

The text-to-speech reader has been developped by Readspeaker, based in Sweden, and whose main product has already adopted by citizen press sites like AgoraVox.

For now, the IHT experimentation is free to try. We guess they might reconsider the free access if it gains in popularity. But right now, everyone using an Asterisk open source voice server could pretty much use this great news sources, download the feeds and set an automatic info line.

Oct 18, 2006 | By Nuno

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