Comments on: Unwired Nation, BlueGrind turning online text into audio

By: Unwired Nation Turns Your Site Content into a Phone Call | Tekjuice.com

Unwired Nation Turns Your Site Content into a Phone Call | Tekjuice.com — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 23:45:51 +0000

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By: Nick Wright

Nick Wright — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 18:11:36 +0000

What’s interesting to me about these kinda services is that folk clearly judge them based on how good they ’sound’. But, none of these firms develop their own speech synthesis. If they wanted great sounding voices – and there’s no evidence they do – they’d use a specialist like Cereproc.com, whose voices do sound like real people…

By: Unwired Nation Turns Your Site Content into a Phone Call

Unwired Nation Turns Your Site Content into a Phone Call — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 00:26:04 +0000

[...] “commercials” versus online marketing, which vary greatly, and leave listeners with no direct way to access the advertisers’ [...]

By: George Appiah

George Appiah — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:12:18 +0000

I recently discovered http://www.Odiogo.com … which gives an incredibly good audio quality for an automated service.

The only issue with Odiogo is that it’s pretty new and there’s no control panel to manage your account. New signups are activated manually, and that means it takes a while to hear from them after you signup.

By: Marc Krejci

Marc Krejci — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 20:15:02 +0000

Yeah, http://www.talkr.com has been doing this for a while now, and I’ve been using it on my blog at http://www.marckrejci.com. Response to this is only so-so.

All of these services still sound like robots and is a little uncomfortable to listen to these automated voices any longer than 30-60 seconds.

It’ll be nice when these services become much more human sounding. What we need is a “reverse Jott” service where Indians read your text back to a feed in a HUMAN voice!