How to convert blog articles to audio files?

May 2, 2008

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From today you are able to play articles in audio format on web2whizzing or to download podcast. It is very simple. Just click on the button “listen” under the title, and computerized voice will loudly and clearly read articles from the blog. You can even try with this article. Go on, don’t be shy.

You can subscribe to my podcast via iTunes, by clicking “listen” and then “to iTunes”, or by clicking odiogo icon in the right sidebar (under subscribe to podcast). Then from your iTunes you can transfer to your ipod, cellular phone, or other 3^rd party devices.

This blogging tool is synchronized with RSS Feed, and the system is based on converting feeds to audio files. And depending on what number of feeds you have selected on the WordPress options page, your RSS feeds will be podcasted, that is converted to audio.

Actually this is called podiocasting, instead of podcasting, because text is not converted by real human. The whole process is automated by service odiogo. It is easy to implicate it to WordPress, because it is based on plugin, and you can very easily implement it to your WordPress, like any other plugin. This plugin automatically renders podiocasts from organic textual content in RSS feeds.

To put it in your blog or even website visit odiogo here.

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