---
title: "Talking Blog"
date: 2005-06-29
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2005"
    url: "/tag/2005.md"
---

# Talking Blog

I’ve recently added a neat new feature onto my blog – a “Listen to audio version of this post” link at the end of each post (only on my website). It’s powered by a really cool new app called [Talkr.com](https://web.archive.org/web/20060114093743/https://www.talkr.com/). Every time I write a post on Read/Write Web, Talkr converts it into an MP3 file. It’s quite a thrill listening to a computer-generated voice, female with an American accent, recite my posts. Check out [the audio version of the “Yahoo My Web 2.0” post](https://web.archive.org/web/20060114093743/http://www.talkr.com/app/fetch.app?feed_id=1289&perma_link=http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/002768.php) I wrote tonight.

Funnily enough, it’s not unlike my own [first experiments with podcasting](https://web.archive.org/web/20060114093743/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/002058.php) nearly a year ago – in which I rather blandly recited one of my long posts. Except I think the computer-generated Talkr voice has way more personality 🙂

Incidentally, I’m recording a human podcast [with Roland Tanglao](https://web.archive.org/web/20060114093743/http://dogmaradio.com/) tomorrow morning my time. So you’ll hear my real voice soon enough.

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/talking_blog.php))*