I am actually developing a service that is a text to speech solution for any app. So, while you travel to work you can listen to ur email/calendar/other data.
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#12Have you heard of the This Developers Life podcast?
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#13Have you heard of the This Developers Life podcast? http://thisdeveloperslife.com/
I miss TDL. I'm sure the format was time-consuming to produce, and I know Mo's cancer diagnosis took top priority. But it was a real gem of a podcast.
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#14I think the idea is interesting - I played around with a prototype myself about a year ago (using RSS + TTS). You might check out this startup: http://umanoapp.com/ which does almost exactly what you want. I don't know how the business model works exactly, but I would imagine that paying people to narrate would be fairly expensive. You might also have a look at some of the stuff NPR is doing: http://www.npr.org/infin…
> I don't know how the business model works exactly, but I would imagine that paying people to narrate would be fairly expensive.
They sell premium memberships now that allow for things like offline listening and better playlist management.