DOA Podcast Maybe

I'm working on a podcast for this site that will combine content from all three of my blogs. It is a tricky business!

I found a hosting site called PodBean that I thought would let me record and publish it, but they only host your podcast.

I did some reading and found what I thought was free software to record and edit called Audacity but it appears to be a trial that lets you record but not edit. As a trial it also puts into your recording a genuinely creepy, major CREEPY robotic woman's voice that drowns you out. Eeewww.

Although I tried modulating my voice, ack ack, what an awful voice I have. Talk about eeewwww. Still the podcasts are planned to be only two minutes long so maybe I'll get used to hearing my own crudball voice and just go for the humor and all will be well.



Man, having nothing but problems adding this podcast here. Carumba.

Odiogo for Your Blog

As part of the More Twenty Three Things on a Stick program, I'm working on Thing 25, which is all about enhancing your blog. The original 23 Things offered a section on Podcasting but I did not do any podcasting myself.

This time around I'm trying all of the parts of each Thing. Hence, the icon at the top right of my blog for Odiogo. Odiogo turns what you have written into spoken words. The voice is computer generated and it reads your blog posts aloud.

Click on Listen Now above any post to hear it.

Using the free Odiogo service would allow someone to put your blog entries on a pc, iPod, MP3 player or Mobile Phone, and listen to them at their leisure. It would also be useful for someone who is visually impaired.

Give it a try for your own blog at: http://www.odiogo.com/index.php

Funny, when I write my posts I hear my own voice reading it. It may change how I express things to hear it read in a serious tone. We shall see.