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    <title>Botcasting - automated text-to-voice services</title>
    <summary>Ted Gilchrist pointed to a new text-to-voice service he&apos;s running called Botcast Network. He&apos;s created a special podcast feed for my blog, so you can regularly listen to my blog posts being spoken in a robot voice. I actually already had a text-to-voice service running on Read/WriteWeb, Talkr, so I thought I&apos;d compare the two...</summary>
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      <![CDATA[<p>Ted Gilchrist <a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_mashups.php#comment-1871">pointed to</a> a new text-to-voice service he's running called <a href="http://www.botcastnetwork.com/">Botcast Network</a>. He's created a special podcast feed for my blog, so you can regularly listen to my blog posts being spoken in a robot voice.</p>

<p>I actually already had a text-to-voice service running on Read/WriteWeb, <a href="http://www.talkr.com/">Talkr</a>, so I thought I'd compare the two services. <a href="http://www.talkr.com/audio/r/e/a/d/493405.mp3">Here is Talkr</a> reading my recent post about my MT upgrade and <a href="http://homepage.mac.com/juliabuck/.Music/creative_commons_output/readwrite.rade_cdphp.mp3">here is Botcast Network</a> reading the same post. In terms of voice output, Botcast uses a male robot and the quality is a little faltering. Talkr uses a female robot voice and runs smoother (it's also quite alluring...but I digress). </p>

<p>To subscribe to a robot podcast of Read/WriteWeb in Talkr, use <a href="http://www.talkr.com/app/my_feeds.app?action=subscribe&feed_id=1289">this feed</a> (registration required I think). In Botcast Network, use <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/RebotcastReadsReadWriteweb">this feed</a>. Either way, it's great to see innovation happening in text-to-voice, because it makes the Web accessible to blind people and those with vision problems.</p>]]>
      
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