Blogs, Read Aloud

The other night, I was catching up on blog feeds and I inadvertently discovered something wholly awesome.

The feeds you love are best experienced late at night, and read to you by a synthetic robot voice.  Text To Speech!  How novel!

Here’s some help:

• Windows
• Apple OS X
• Linux (Ok, if you’re adept enough to use Linux, you can figure this out for yourself)

Set your reader to a female voice, and have her read these:

• Ready for a Rant?  Let’s go. (Courtney903)
• Houston, We Have A Problem (deutlich)
• Bruises on the fruit/ Tender Age in Bloom (Gina Clover)

Am I right?  Okay, now try a male voice on these:

• The DANGLE Initiative (f.B)
• Closing the Bree Chapter (Starting Over @ 24)
• From the Archives (My Heart’s Porch)

I’m giving you only three from each gender to get you started.  These are just the few that I wanted to hear read aloud to me, and it adds a whole ‘nother dimension to blogging.  Cadences are changed to ways you wouldn’t think of things said in your head.

Fun little exercise.

Anyway, back to work for me.