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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Pediaphon is a web app that turns wikipedia articles into mp3s.

Pharos said...: Check out the "Spoken Wikpedia" WikiProject for Wikipedia articles read by humans.

WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia

List of Spoken articles; May 27, 2008 11:58 AM
Ben Yates said...: The two obstacles in front of the spoken articles project are:

1. Exclusive use of OGG

2. Uneven sound quality

It's still pretty cool. Yours truly recorded Hundertwasserhaus.; May 27, 2008 4:09 PM
Anonymous said...: Hi,
I really like your blog because I love wikipedia. I was wondering if you could blog about this widget I have here. It's a Wikipedia Search Bar for your blog.

thanks so much!
-John Smith; May 27, 2008 5:03 PM
Ben Yates said...: Hey, that's pretty cool. (You should make the "+- Get this Widget" link much bigger, though; people are going to miss it.); May 27, 2008 7:24 PM
Pharos said...: Re: Ben

If someone wanted to host MP3 versions of Spoken articles off-site, they could certainly do that under free licenses.

I don't think it would be hard to set up.

And it would be just as convenient to access as the site you link to (for better or worse, the patent-free policy on Wikimedia isn't likely to change).; May 27, 2008 9:55 PM

Tuesday, May 27, 2008