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Posted by Tennessee Leeuwenburg on 2007/04/05
I was just Googling to see what people were saying about The Python Papers, and I came across this link: http://www.scribd.com/doc/6424/The-Python-Papers
This awesome website provides a (flash?) rendering of the PDF version of the last edition, and includes multiple export formats. Most remarkably, it includes an MP3 export. After listening to it, I must say that I am amazed at the quality of the text-to-speech processing, especially compared to previous explorations I have made into this option.
Cool!
All the best,
-T
(Editor-In-Chief, The Python Papers)
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Tennessee Leeuwenburg
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I've never looked into internet radio as a potential vehicle for broadcasting this kind of content. It's an awesome idea... Just brainstorming now:
The major difficulty in this case is that the magazine contains a lot of text which makes sense on a page, but which is very clumsy when spoken.
This is most obvious when the table of contents, opening pages of the magazine or code is being spoken. To do a really good job, there would need to be a special script for the spoken version.
Thanks for the comment!
I've never looked into internet radio as a potential vehicle for broadcasting this kind of content. It's an awesome idea... Just brainstorming now:
The major difficulty in this case is that the magazine contains a lot of text which makes sense on a page, but which is very clumsy when spoken.
This is most obvious when the table of contents, opening pages of the magazine or code is being spoken. To do a really good job, there would need to be a special script for the spoken version.
Thanks for the comment!
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It is just a short jump from this to radio (internet sat or whatever). Anyone have a setup for that... I am using 365.com but haven't checked to see if they have kicked me out.. I would need to convert it to a lower bandwidth though... any thoughts??
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