Look what they’ve done to my blog, ma.
Now you don’t even have to read this blog - you can lsten to it on your mp3 player. We have provided further enhancement to the functionality of this, the HC2006 blog by adding podcast audio files. This all done using some neat automated text-to-speech conversion software. We will be interested to hear readers’ and listeners’ views.
Currently there are two new additions:
1. Talkr files - for each full post (not comments yet) there is an mp3 audio file. This is generated automatically using Talkr (www.talkr.com). Click on the ‘Listen to this article’ link at the end of each post.
2. feed2podcast files - this produces a streaming audio file of the whole blog, in reverse chronological order. This is generated automatically using feed2podcast (www.feed2podcast.com).
We will be tweaking these to try and produce proper podcast files that you can download to your mp3 player. Please bear with us as we make improvements.
We think these new additions - which are probably a world first for a conference blog, and certainly for a health informatics event blog - provide interesting new possibilities. Even the effect of typo’s in the text-to-speech conversion add a certain delicious ‘je ne sais quoi’.
Update of 13 February: we have now added a Feedburner feed using the feed2podcast files, which gives you a second way of listening to the individual audio versions of each post. See http://feeds.feedburner.com/feed2podcast/TeBm or the Feedburner logo in the righthand column, to access or subscribe to these.
Technorati Tags: podcast, Talkr, HC2006, health informatics
February 12th, 2006 at 11:06 pm
Thanks for the blog, we have been perfecting our service over the last few weeks and should have a few new cool features comming out soon. FYI our badges allow anyone to add your podcast to their itunes, however if you want to take the podcast url we gave you and Feedburn it, it will allow for all sorts of subscription methods, plus a one bye one player, don’t hesitate to contact us if you need assistance creating what you need/want. Respectfully, robbie@feed2podcast.com
February 24th, 2006 at 10:31 pm
This is a great idea. I’m going to have to look into doing it for my blog: http://www.crashutah.com/emr
August 8th, 2006 at 6:23 am
[...] In one of the blogs that I’ve been reading in the healthcare industry they talked about a nice set of technology they are using to convert their blog into audio files. Essentially the written text becomes a podcast. Pretty cool technology I’d say. Here’s a description of a couple of the technologies they’re using: 1. Talkr files - for each full post (not comments yet) there is an mp3 audio file. This is generated automatically using Talkr (www.talkr.com). Click on the ‘Listen to this article’ link at the end of each post. 2. feed2podcast files - this produces a streaming audio file of the whole blog, in reverse chronological order. This is generated automatically using feed2podcast (www.feed2podcast.com). [...]