Podcasting to Help Accessibility
February 4, 2005Text to Speech is a great item which can help people with disabilities get to hear the content just like everyone else. Having used text to speech before it is very simple, you can just write in your content and choose which voice should speak it. The voice is clear and concise and something could hopefully be implemented on most blogs in a few years time. Bloggers can enter their content as usual but while their blog is updating it is also converting it to speech (at the moment it is converted to .wav). Once it appears on the site it also features a button for people to click and listen. Maybe in the future the speech synthesis will be able to convert to MP3, which could be added to your RSS file so they can connect their MP3 Player and listen to blog posts on the go. So they not only get to listen to podcasts but also blog entries.
