Suggestion – Read out loud
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When I visit City Journal I always use the option to have their articles read out loud. It’s amazing that his technology is available for free. English is not my first language. Or my second for that matter. It’s totally school knowledge through and through. I have never been to an English speaking country in my life. So read-out-loud is a help. It enhances the information value of the text. It is as if I remember it better afterwards.
So this request for a similar feature as an option for our blogs isn’t even driven our of concern for people with eye problems. But it is obvious that they will benefit the most.
What I imagine was a little icon the same size and place as the comment icon that people click on the posts. Or the little pencil icon that the bloggers click for an edit. (I have K2 theme).
This here is a link to an article at City Journal. Check out the read out loud option: http://www.city-journal.org/2010/20_3_american-liberalism.html
This here is a link for Odiogo – the place that makes these fine audios: http://www.odiogo.com/Couldn’t WordPress.com make something similar? Get at deal with the folks at Odiogo’s?
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Of course, you can do this on your own blog if you Post something, then go to your blog and read it while using the new Telephone Your Blog technology here. It’s free. That gives you an uploaded MP3 in a new post: you can copy the URL of that MP3 and add it to the post you read out loud in an audio player OR you can just leave it as a separate post.
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Thanks raincoaster, I didn’t know that. I can’t even find it in the support articles but I’ll keep searching for the instructions or how-to’s…
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Thanks raincoaster, I didn’t know that. I can’t even find it in the support articles but I’ll keep searching for the instructions or how-to’s…
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Thanks airodyssey. But I don’t want my own voice on my blog. I was thinking of some machine audios…
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That is amazing: to be able to hear a post someone has written. PLUS: follow along in the text while you listen.
Text to speech—that example is so well done.
“This here is a link for Odiogo – the place that makes these fine audios: http://www.odiogo.com/”
I think this needs to be in the Ideas Forum. We can hope this could be implemented.
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Yes. Let’s have this! I mix languages on my blog. The English posts will benefit from such a fine feature. :-)
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