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I’ve just enabled the superb Odiogo plu­gin in my site, allow­ing those of you who are hearing-impaired, as well as those who pre­fer audio pod­casts, to lis­ten to my posts rather than read them. Click on the “lis­ten” but­ton above each post and an audio ver­sion of it will be read to you. You can even sub­scribe to these pod­casts through iTunes. (Again, just click on that “lis­ten” button.)

Here’s what Wikipedia had to say about Odigo:

“Odiogo (from audio-to-go) enables con­tent providers and blog­gers to quickly and auto­mat­i­cally gen­er­ate high fidelity audio from           tex­tual con­tent, allow­ing con­sumers to eas­ily “lis­ten to” their favorite online news and infor­ma­tion. The Odiogo gen­er­ated con­tent can be   lis­tened to on Windows/Mac PCs, Mobile phones and iPods/MP3 play­ers.

Odiogo’s pro­pri­etary algo­rithms per­form sev­eral pre and post pro­cess­ing tasks on the con­tent before it is processed by state of the art Text to speech engines.”

This means, of course, that the voice  is not my own. I like to imag­ine it belongs to a com­puter with a big glow­ing red eye and impec­ca­ble man­ners and a pen­chant for dom­i­na­tion. You know, just like this one here.

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