Odiogo: Listen to your Feeds
It’s not very often people get excited over text to speech, but this is really cool! A service called Odigo is an podcast generator that uses your RSS feeds to generate automatic human sounding audio versions of your blog.
To implement it into your existing infrastructure couldn’t be easier. Odiogo re-syndicates your existing RSS feed with newly added podcast enclosures, providing a new RSS feed you can easily redirect to or update via Feedburner. To make life simple the generated MP3 files are stored on thier servers, so you don’t need to worry about overloading your bandwidth. There is even an option to embed a flash player on your entries with its associated audio (Embedded at the bottom of this post).
Best of all the service is FREE. They claim once your listenership reaches a significant level, you could qualify for a share of ad income, though at the time of this article there are no ads except for an annoying Odiogo tag at the beginning of the audio post.
For testing I have posted an Odiogo enabled audio feed for everyone to hear the high quality of the text translation, which I recommend you listen to at least one post so you can see why we are all excited.
They have a signup page setup, but wait times could be as long as four weeks as they deal with capacity.
