I’m podded

I’ve read earlier today the recent Northwoods GeoCats blog where tonka_boy talks about site performance and refers to wayfarer, talking about SEO. I found a lot of useful tips over there. I also discovered the odiogo plugin which converts a blog to a podcast without recording something.

A podcast is nice and useful, when you’re doing a long walk alone during a cache hunt. There are some hurdles preventing me to record a podcast though:

  • I don’t have the nicest voice in the world
  • I’m not an native English speaker. In fact, English should be – after Dutch, French and German – my 4th language. In practice, English became a kind of a 2nd language. That doesn’t mean that I’m a fluent speaker though. Even writing is – grammatical wise -  sometimes a problem

Such a tool is thus good news for me. It makes a kind of Text To Speak version of my blog. Ok, it’s not perfect (intonation wise), but it’s certainly better than a version recorded by myself.

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4 Responses to “I’m podded”

  1.  tonka_boy Says:

    I listened to your blog today. Sounds great!

  2.  searchjaunt Says:

    @tonka_boy -
    It sounds indeed OK. I hope that one can choose other voices in the future too. Eg a specific voice for the female blogger and/or UK English voices.

  3.  Chris Says:

    Thanks for the link! Glad I could help with the plugin.

    wayfarer

  4.  searchjaunt Says:

    @Chris -
    It’s a good plugin indeed

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