On 2009-02-25, Dave Henn <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 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.
If I undestand correctly what you're describing, this would not be that. Sounds like what you describe is a matter of piping text through MacInTalk, or something like that, and saving it as MP3. Plus, they wouldn't have any inflection, as we both noted, so it would be hard to listen to -- especially for something like that, where you need to understand all of it. I do think that might be an interim step, though: People podcasting by having their posts automatically baked into MP3 and posted to the web. I would expect that to be a transitional phase, though, until sophisticated automated readers got more market penetration. All my speculations are purely divorced from the IP aspects of it, of course. On the IP level, I still am not sure what to think of it. I think I probably favor a broader reading of Fair Use than is currently accepted. It's my mis-spent Libertarian youth coming back to haunt me. -- eric scoles ([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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
