Friday, June 15, 2007
Odiogo: Transform your Blog into a Podcast
Odiogo converts your blog posts into podcasts, automatically.
It takes your RSS feed and runs it through text-to-speech software to transform your blog into a podcast. After you sign up, it may take a day or two for them to process your content into MP3 audio files.
Naturally, the first thing I was afraid of was an awkward and artificial-sounding mechanical voice reading out my blog posts. Odiogo isn't too bad in that respect, but you can clearly tell that they've used text-to-speech software to create the podcast. It doesn't sound like a real person speaking.
Still, it can open up your blog to a whole new demographic: "readers" who prefer to listen to your blog and the visually-impaired.
You can check out the quality of the podcasts by hearing how Digital Alchemy sounds as a podcast here.
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However, there's one more concern. Audio ad spots are inserted into your podcast by Odiogo which may be a concern for some of you. This is the path to monetizing free content and services that We7 also follows to provide free music downloads.
It takes your RSS feed and runs it through text-to-speech software to transform your blog into a podcast. After you sign up, it may take a day or two for them to process your content into MP3 audio files.
Naturally, the first thing I was afraid of was an awkward and artificial-sounding mechanical voice reading out my blog posts. Odiogo isn't too bad in that respect, but you can clearly tell that they've used text-to-speech software to create the podcast. It doesn't sound like a real person speaking.
Still, it can open up your blog to a whole new demographic: "readers" who prefer to listen to your blog and the visually-impaired.
You can check out the quality of the podcasts by hearing how Digital Alchemy sounds as a podcast here.
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However, there's one more concern. Audio ad spots are inserted into your podcast by Odiogo which may be a concern for some of you. This is the path to monetizing free content and services that We7 also follows to provide free music downloads.
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