Robots To Replace Podcasters

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The era of wives and children grunting and squealing in the background on podcasts may come to an end. The International Herald Tribune has launched daily podcasts called ‘AudioNews’ where the files are automatically created from the web version of the IHT by an application that converts text to voice.

You can select the channels you want to listen to and even add them to iTunes for regular downloads.

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  1. “era”? Try more like nano-second. Time sures moves fast in your “reality.”

    Stephen Fleming
  2. a) You didn’t notice any ‘tongue in cheek’ in the post? F-me, the post has only 3 lines in it and you didn’t see any sense of humor?
    b) For someone who works for a huge agency Y&R – I’m sure it feels like a nano second – what? only found out about podcasts last week??

  3. actually just yesterday!

    Stephen Fleming
  4. That was “tongue in cheek” too.

    Sorry to ruffle your feathers.

    Your blog is great.

    best,
    stephen

    Stephen Fleming