The Impressive Technology Review Site
I’d been to the Technology Review site before but this time I noticed that there was an audio button. I had begun reading a very interesting article on Quantum Computing and while still on the first page I’d noticed the audio link. I decided to listen to the remaining three pages rather than read and I was impressed with what I heard. The site is using text-to-speech software but instead of the rather awful robotic voices that are supplied free with Microsoft Vista, the male voice that I listened to sounded almost human. It made a few odd pronunciations of quite simple words like “atom” and “nil” and made a complete mess of Schrodinger (with an umlaut over the ‘o’) but overall I was very impressed. This is surely the future of web pages. Sometimes you just read so much that you want to give your eyes a rest and what could be better than having the content read to you.
I went on to find out a little more about the audio side of the site (the following information comes from here):
About Our Audio Podcasts
Technology Review, the authority on the future of technology, is the first media property to combine podcasting and text-to-speech (T2S) technology to give its tech-savvy users yet another way to get their daily news. Listen to these files on your computer, or download them to your MP3 player and take them with you.
About T2S technology and AudioDizer
AudioDizer, an MIT-student-founded company, employs cutting-edge text-to-speech (T2S) technology to increase the amount of content available for mobile devices.
While T2S technology has been around for years, AudioDizer brings the podcast experience to the next level by using multiple voices, different accents, and music to enhance the listening experience. To find out more, please visit www.audiodizer.com.
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