Talking Blog
I've recently added a neat new feature onto my blog - a "Listen to audio version of this post" link at the end of each post (only on my website). It's powered by a really cool new app called Talkr.com. Every time I write a post on Read/Write Web, Talkr converts it into an MP3 file. It's quite a thrill listening to a computer-generated voice, female with an American accent, recite my posts. Check out the audio version of the "Yahoo My Web 2.0" post I wrote tonight.
Funnily enough, it's not unlike my own first experiments with podcasting nearly a year ago - in which I rather blandly recited one of my long posts. Except I think the computer-generated Talkr voice has way more personality :-)
Incidentally, I'm recording a human podcast with Roland Tanglao tomorrow morning my time. So you'll hear my real voice soon enough.
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I like Talkr too. I profiled them on techcrunch and listened to a few blog postings. Of course you lose the links and the images, but the voice quality is awesome for an automated system. Good stuff.
What I think would be REALLY cool though is an automated system that took podcasts and generated text transcripts in near-real time.