Don’t Like Reading? How About Odiogo?

I am not one who enjoys being read to, but - I don’t know - Perhaps you like it. Alternatively, perhaps your target audience may enjoy a voice reading to them if you are a blog owner.

If that is something you are interested in, I have just the thing for you. It is called Odiogo, and it will take any written blog entries and turn them into spoken word. It uses an integrated player that sticks itself on top of every blog post, and lets readers listen to any post.

While a bit irritating to listen to after a minute or two (one of several reasons text-to-speech services are still not more widely adopted), Odiogo’s digital voice is definitely a step up from the last generation of computer generated speakers.

To actually add the tool to your blog there are plug-ins and bits of JavaScript code site owners can integrate into their blog installation or hosted template. Once installed, the service will go to work on all of your previously published posts and make new ones available for listening within a few hours.

I think this is neat, and the fact that the voice sounds much better than your “first generation” text-to-speech services, almost makes me want posts read to me…Nah, not really. You may though.

What do you think? Do you like being read to? Do you like being read to by a text-to-speech service and would not mind if we placed it here on The Tech Brief? I am curious. Let us know!