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

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

Hi JD and Allen and all,

In answer to your prior post JD, the link you mentioned looks interesting.

Until Google killed Google Reader, I had an RSS feed reader on the 
Android tablet called gReader.  It no longer works.  Actually, though, I 
almost never get this type of info by reading (with my eyes).  I use 
audio for books, podcasts, tech news (via podcasts), etc.  About the 
only thing I read is magazines and training type books which don't work 
well on audio.

I like the idea of using the tts system in Android.  I had previously 
purchased the SVox tts engine for the tablet along with the Grace 
English voice.  I copied some text from the eff blog into it and played 
it and it didn't sound terrible.  It wasn't fabulous either, but would 
probably be acceptable for short periods of time. It's better than the 
built in voice for Android.

See my further replies on this thread.

Sincerely,

Ron


On 7/31/2013 11:46 AM, JD wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>      


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