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Re:Why keeping up with RSS is poisonous to productivity, sanity by mcclanahoochie on Sunday September 04, 2011 @09:38AM (#2959372)
I just use FeedSpeak (http://feedspeak.tk) - an app that reads your RSS feeds to you, so you can listen to articles while doing other things.
Re:Why keeping up with RSS is poisonous to productivity, sanity by ryanklee on Sunday September 04, 2011 @12:17PM (#2959637)
Unless they've got Morgan Freeman or Tom Waits or Garrison Keillor doing the reading, I'm not sure how you can stand this.

I'm not just being cheeky, either; is listening to voice fonts for extended periods and for complex material just something you have to warm up to?

Re:Why keeping up with RSS is poisonous to productivity, sanity by mcclanahoochie on Sunday September 04, 2011 @06:26PM (#2960458)
heh, the robotic lady voice was annoying at first, but i got used to it. there is experimental support for custom tts engines built into the app if you want to use different ones.