Comments on: Oh, and in a sexy voice too?

Question: Oh, and in a sexy voice too?

penciltopper — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:48:20 -0800

I want to listen to my custom news/etc. in the morning. Who has a way of turning their RSS text feeds into mp3s? Feeds->RSS Text->Spoken Mp3->PDA/phone/iTunes, as automated as possible?

I'm almost sure I saw a little side article about this in a Mac magazine a few months ago, but it is now lost to me.
There has got to be a way to do this - in fact, a bunch of ways - who's got the best?

By: JDHarper

JDHarper — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:40:36 -0800

Do you need something for the Mac or for the PC?

By: pu9iad

pu9iad — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:01:36 -0800

The folks over at hak5.org did something like that in S01E03 and created a couple of scripts that create a wave file from your favorite rss feeds.
YouTube - Hak.5 Episode #3
It becomes interesting at about 7:00 in the movie.

By: scottreynen

scottreynen — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:15:43 -0800

I once did some freelance work for Feed2podcast, which seems to be close to what you're seeking.

By: penciltopper

penciltopper — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:57:44 -0800

Oh, sorry JDHarper and all: I'll take a good solution for Mac, PC or Ubuntu Linux. (In that order - my main machine is a Mac, so a Tiger solution would be preferred.)

By: DefendBrooklyn

DefendBrooklyn — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 04:24:53 -0800

This doesn't cover everyone else but I especially like the International Herald Tribune's audionews feature. It basically lets you build your own podcast of all their articles. In a voice that reasonably sounds like a human.