RSS RSS Text to Speech

As part of the app-a-day experiment, the Software Jedi has released a program called RSS Text to Speech. At first I though this program would be incredibly annoying, and in fact it very well can be, but there are certainly some use cases that make sense. The idea here is that you put in a few RSS feeds for things that you want to stay on top of. RSS Text to Speech then polls the feeds you've entered, and as soon as something new is detected on the feed, it is read aloud using Microsoft's built-in text to speech engine. The voice options you have available are dependent on what version of Windows you're running.

Although I don't think I could handle having this thing running all the time, there are times when I want to monitor a breaking story, and I could see that this utility could certainly be useful in that circumstance.

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