Consume More Articles (Without Actually Reading Them)
A friend who knows well how much content I consume sent me a great tip the other day. If you’re sick of actually reading all those articles you find throughout the day (or that other people send you), just forward the articles to your free account on Sound Gecko. It’ll turn those written words into an audiofile (read in a not entirely fluid male voice).
So cool. And no, I’ve never seen another app like it.
Now I’m just waiting to be able to change the guy’s voice to a British accent, like on the GPS.
If you’re not certain on when you’d find the time to listen to such audiofiles, check out my post, When I Find Time to Listen to Audiobooks. Same logic applies.
The first three articles I listened to on Sound Gecko?
- An anthropological article entitled, “Writing Live Fieldnotes: Towards a More Open Ethnography” about how digital media is changing ethnographic process in the field.
- The popular Daily Beast article, “A Gay Chick-fil-A Employee Speaks Out“, a powerful read.
- The latest blog entry by Carole Radziwell, one of the Real Housewives of New York City, giving a behind-the-scenes take on the latest episode. (Yes, I told you I watch reality tv. And Yes, you can judge.)
Have you tried Sound Gecko? Will you now?
Data & Analytics at Nissan North America
8 年If you have an iPhone/iPad the best I've found is Voice Dream Reader. https://www.voicedream.com/ Additional voices can be purchased in-app. The author was open to my suggestion to add some new high-quality Text-To-Speech voices. My favorite natural-sounding voice is Salli (by Ivona). It costs additional money for the voice, but the App and the Voice add-on is very much worth it. It allows you to speak text from a number of sources, including Evernote, Pocket, Dropbox, PDFs to name my top use-cases. It opens up a whole new world of audio content for the commute!
Specialization in Healthcare Management and Legal Management
8 年Danie...unfortunately, I did not research product prior to re-tweeting and found the same to be true. I did however, find iSpeech TTS to be a useful app on my MS phone within Googleplay.
Same here. Sounds like a great opportunity to be developed.
Group Strategist - Impact Capital Investments
8 年Hi Claire....I tried to download Sound Gecko but it says that it shut down in March 2015 already ?
SEO Friendly Web Designer at ilovewhatido Media
8 年Oh bugger! Sounds like an opportunity for someone!