On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Eric Scoles <[email protected]> wrote:
> > [snip] > > On the other hand, it does seem to me that it's a harbinger of things to > come. For a few years now I've been expecting the advent of a sort of > automated podcast: Blog posts or articles that had been marked-up for > automated readers. You could do it with xhtml+css, even -- no need for a new > markup language. You'd be able to subscribe to feeds of marked-up text (thus > very compact and trivially fast to transfer to your device) that would be > interpreted on the fly. It would take some work by patient people to craft > ways of describing speech, but the basic work was all done by linguists and > phonologists years ago -- it "just" needs to be ported. > [snip] >> >> >> The automated podcast has been attempted at least once, and years ago. And of all types - it was an intellectual property law podcast using one of the OS-genre text-to-speech systems. It was awful, and it even used text specifically prepared for it. I couldn't listen to it for more than a couple of minutes. Of course, using a better system would improve that quite a bit, and many improvements have been made in even the OS powered systems since the podcast was done (I think it was 2003 or 2004). It's very likely that there another, more listenable, automated podcast out there now. -- Dave Henn [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
