Text to audio for handsfree ‘reading’.

Let’s kick things off with a positive.

Popular Science posted a article “How to convert text articles into audio (and why you might want to)“. It is a nice article covering different ways of listening to text content on your mobile device. Offering options for built in options as well as 3rd party apps.

I’m a fan of listening to books, and web sites on my iPhone on my walks so the title had my interest. I’m happy to see the content matched up to the title promise.

OK, “Lets Boogie”

I created this site many years ago as a place to state my observations. I had a few other collaborators that added things here and there. Then, we got a bit side tracked with life as well as actual content direction.

I cleared the plate and decided to hone in on a pet peeve of mine, articles and news that don’t deliver on the promise. Their headlines make a statement, then when I read the article or watch of video, they either only lightly hit on the subject, or they don’t at all.

Sadly, while my commenting/posts here will point out the win and failures, my posting a reference to bad content still gives is references in the mind of the great search engines. Perhaps they will scan my text in those cases and see it is a negative review so push the article down instead of thinking that any reference is a win for the content.

Lets give this a try…