VoiceCorp launches iPhone application for speech-enabling RSS-feeds
October 8th, 2009
VoiceCorp released today an iPhone application in association with one of Sweden’s largest daily newspapers, Upsala Nya Tidning (UNT). UNT is the first company to launch VoiceCorp’s iPhone application, enabling iPhone and iPod Touch users to listen to the latest news.
VoiceCorp has developed an application for iPhone and iPod Touch that allows content providers to expand their reach by offering high quality and fully automated podcasts from their RSS feeds. This automatic podcast service is based on the ReadSpeake podCaster product. The application can be seen as a ‘company branded’ podcast player on the iPhone that plays back an audio version of a full text RSS feed. In addition to the iPhone, the application is also available for Andriod phones, and will soon be for Blackberry and Java.
“With the iPhone application, based on our ReadSpeaker podCaster product, content will be accessible to a larger audience by reaching those that prefer to listen to content, rather than read it” said Niclas Bergstrom, CEO at VoiceCorp. “This can range from people with reading difficulties to business people that want to listen to the latest news feeds while doing something else”.
The iPhone application is immediate available to content providers worldwide.
About VoiceCorp
VoiceCorp is the leading Software as a Service (SaaS) company in the area of speech-enabling online content for web sites and RSS feeds. The founders of VoiceCorp pioneered the first-ever speech-enabling application for web sites with its ReadSpeaker application in 1999. VoiceCorp has a wide variety of corporate, media, public and non-profit customers worldwide subscribing to its services and several million users listening per month. VoiceCorp speech-enables online content on the fly in up to 20 languages and provides a portfolio of web based text-to-speech applications for web sites, RSS feeds, online campaigns, newsletters, and emails deliverable on computers as well as on portable devices such as mp3 players, smartphones, iPhones and PDAs. More information about VoiceCorp: www.voice-corp.com.
Thanks for the article. It’s good for people who don’t like reading off their iphone
Sometimes the font is just to small, the podcasts are a cool idea.