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On 2014-11-20 18:54, Trenton Matthews wrote:
> I myself am wondering, as an optional idea (if the person has
> expertise  in editing shows themselves,) if they could add the sponsor
> at the appropriate spot during a particular theme?

No.

Firstly we use different messages depending on the location where ther
episode is served from.

Secondly hosts rarely download new themes and templates after their
first episode. I am still getting shows with the old intros and outros
attached.

Thirdly it adds enormous effort to check if everything has been added.
There is no way to do it automatically, so I will need to download every
episode and check them end to end.

> As I am myself, a blind/visually impaired user, the speech at the
> beginning is also a bit off putting.

I can understand that it annoys blind users who are used to tweaking
their tts, but it's there as a convenience for people who are operating
vehicles, listening while running, etc. It has been the most requested
feature over the years.

It allows people to know what the show is about so they can choose to
delete it, listen to it now, or later. It means that they can continue
doing what ever task they are doing by just pressing delete, or next.
This is why it must be at the very beginning after the sponsor message,
and before the intro.

There is an option to add it yourself at the beginning and signalling
that in the show notes. Of the times that setting has been flagged, over
50% had forgotten to add the summary or had put it in the wrong place.
This means that for shows where it is flagged, I now download and
manually check for the summary before I process the shows. I am not
always at a location that has the bandwidth to download the large flac
files to listen to them, so this is leading to processing delays.

Like changing the intro, removing the text to speech summary will
require approved from the list and the community at large.

Given the amount of effort that has been put into enabling the text to
speech summary end to end, I personally will be strongly against this
effort unless there is majority support to remove it.

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Regards,

Ken Fallon
http://kenfallon.com
http://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents.php?hostid=30
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