My neighbor keeps insisting that Podcasting is the "wave of the future" and that I should start a Podcast. I can just imagine it:
Podcast: Today we're going to discuss film development. There are two important factors in film development: temperature, agitation, and timing -
Three things that are important --
Okay - that's Monty Python adapted to Film Development.
What I could do is Podcast the blog. Find something that translates text into a voice and put it up for you to download and enjoy while you're stuck in traffic.
Are there machines yet that can pronounce (without sounding computerish) text? What do they do when they run into words that aren't in their database? Change them to what they suggest?
"Dear Listeners,
Today we're going to talk about Poe Casings. Poe Casings began a few years ago with the popularity of the eye pod.. "
Or does it stop and ask what word you meant? How does it pronounce "tomato?"
1 comment:
Well, to answer your last question: if the software was designed by the same bunch that brought us those swell electronic voting machines, the translation for "tomato" would be...ketchup. ;-)
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