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Jul 31, 2011 09:01PM

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There is a service that turns blogs (i.e. written RSS feeds) into audio (can't remember what it's called...podiogo or something like that). I tried it very breifly and didn't like it at all...For the most part things that are written in the conversational/newsy style of most blogs and websites that I visit are meant to be read in the written form - they don't translate well to audio - especially not audio as read by a computer generated voice.
For me at any rate audiobooks aren't just random people reading...they are performances by trained actors and so they have all the right context and nuance that I don't believe a computer will ever be able to generate. I certainly quickly gave up on the service I mentioned above after a very short time...if I don't have time to read a blog or website with my eyes then I'll live with missing it
For me at any rate audiobooks aren't just random people reading...they are performances by trained actors and so they have all the right context and nuance that I don't believe a computer will ever be able to generate. I certainly quickly gave up on the service I mentioned above after a very short time...if I don't have time to read a blog or website with my eyes then I'll live with missing it