[ale] OT how do you turn a blog into a private podcast / mp3 / ogg

[JD]

BTW, Android has text2speach capabilities built-in. You just need to find an app
that does it and decide which speech subsystem you'd like used.

When I looked at the required code to make it work, it wasn't very long. The
complexity was all around creating a window and pointing to a non-hardcoded
file.  OTOH, I could have been dreaming - which happens often when Java is involved.

On 07/31/2013 11:36 AM, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I want to keep up with the EFF via audio, but I don't think they publish a
> podcast.  The next best thing would be to take each new paragraph in their blog:
> 
> https://www.eff.org/deeplinks
> 
> and turn it into an rss feed with the text turned into speech so that I could
> retrieve it on my podcatcher.  Better yet, make each 10 or (selectable number)
> of new paragraphs into one podcast.
> 
> Does anyone know how to do that?  If there is a public service that can do this,
> that would be the best.  Then, I could just point my podcatcher at the rss
> feed.  A possible alternative is to have my mint machine run conversions
> periodically, but then I'd have to figure out how to get it on to my Android
> tablet.
>