04
Dec
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.
December 4th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
I listened to your blog today. Sounds great!
December 4th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
@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.
December 9th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Thanks for the link! Glad I could help with the plugin.
wayfarer
December 10th, 2008 at 8:31 am
@Chris -
It’s a good plugin indeed