Speechcasting: podcasting feeds for new website content in Plone

Last Updated on Tuesday, 28 March 2006 08:31 Written by Steve Tuesday, 28 March 2006 08:31

Alan Runyan, one of the founders of the Plone open source CMS, just posted his latest proof of concept: speechcasting.

And then I started thinking, “What if every time I added a News Item on my website, if I could automatically generate a decent text-to-speech .mp3 file and use podcasting to keep people up-to-date?” After hacking on it I asked someone “Is this a good idea?” and they said “If I can read it why would I care to listen to computer generated voice?” and that confirmed it — people arent thinking about the visually impaired.

It sounds like a really interesting way to extend Plone’s world class accessibility to the realm of audio content.