A new version of Expressivo text-to-speech software has been released. New with version 1.3 is integration with iTunes, making it easy to automatically translate text-to-speech and get it on your iPod. Any text read by Expressivo is automatically added to your iTunes library as an audio file. Texts read by Expressivo can also be played [...]

Does the world still need podcasters? That’s the question raised by the latest announcement from MagneticTime, a text-to-speech software developer. The company announced today that MT-Podcast, an application that can automatically convert scripts to podcasts, is now available for free to hobbyist bloggers. ‚ÄúThe blogging community is growing and vibrant ‚Äì and one which can [...]

The New York Times Company’s International Herald Tribune (IHT) is beta-testing a service that lets users select articles to receive and have them automatically translated into a custom podcast. The service uses text-to-speech technology to convert news items into a podcast. “Articles are read by the latest text-to-speech technologies using professional readers whose recordings are [...]