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You are here: Home » The RSS Marketing Diary » RSS Latest News » Listening to RSS Feeds, Not Reading Them June 2, 2005 Listening to RSS Feeds, Not Reading Them SearchEngineWatch reports of a new service, Speakwire, which allows you to listen (audio) to selected RSS feeds instead of reading them, through a synthesized speech technology. And they even invented a new -casting word, this time it's Autocasting and it means generating audio automatically from an RSS feed. For one, it's not a bad idea, if the sound quality (intonation, enthusiasm, warm, ...) were better, but I just don't see this hitting anywhere near mainstream. Computer generated audio simply cannot be compared to emotion-filled human voice, at least not yet. So the question now is what podcasts achieve greater reach: those with emotion and entusiasm or those with just the content but no real emotion? Usually the first ... so I really don't see many internet users going this way. "Pick your newsfeeds collate them and playback as a speaking newswire service while you work. Chose from News, Politics, Business, Science and Technology, Sport, Stock prices, private subscription services.
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