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I want a program to download a list of RSS feeds, record an mp3 of it reading the new entries from each one, and transfer it to my iPod, each morning before I leave for work.
Original article: Audio RSS Reader?
http://www.kainjow.com/pod2go/website/ may meet the needs you’re looking for; it seems to support arbitrary RSS feeds.
Posted by: Richard Soderberg on March 3, 2003 09:56 PMpod2go is close, but it just transfers the text of the RSS feeds to the iPod, it doesn’t do any speech synthesis.
Posted by: Moss Collum on March 3, 2003 11:30 PMwhat about this: voicebox
converts text to speech, and can download rss newsfeeds.
Not sure if it will directly transfer to iPod, but if it doesn’t the site claims that it’s fully AppleScript-able, so it shouldn’t be too hard to either create a script of your own to do it, or else find one that comes close and modify it.
heck, pair this with a cron entry and you could have it download and convert, and then have a cron entry that transfers it all over to the iPod five minutes before you leave for work ;)
(thanks to Forward Address: OS X for the tip)
Posted by: Arif on March 4, 2003 07:49 AMThat looks like exactly what I want!
The iPod bit was just icing, really, and yes, it can all be done with AppleScript. Very nice.
Thanks, LazyWeb!
Posted by: Moss Collum on March 4, 2003 07:54 AMThis entry:LazyWeb: Audio RSS Reader? from LazyWeb just gives me warm fuzzies all over, not because I responded, but because...Read more here
Great idea!
How about for PC users… Does anyone know of an RSS newreader that will output to voice mp3? Preferably using one of the awesome new AT&T Labs Natural Voice voices?
-Sean
Posted by: sean@cheesebikini.com on March 5, 2003 02:17 AMBlogger wants to make it possible for webloggers to call it in, so you could push your material out as MP3's. That's pretty cool, and I think opens up the possibility for Blogger peeps to...Read more here
Any blogs hosted at blogthing.com will now have this functionality. An mp3 is generated of the latest postings. It’s an amusing distraction. Read about it on the dev site.
Posted by: Jamie Wilson on May 12, 2003 05:31 PMI guess we had an idea others have already had here, but we’ve got this working - it is pretty cool. Look for a release of the script this Tuesday.
http://www.alexking.org/blog/index.php?p=270
Posted by: Alex King on May 24, 2003 05:36 AM