Sponsorised links
November 2009
A New Theory of Awesomeness and Miracles, by James Bridle, concerning Charles Babbage, Heath Robinson, MENACE and MAGE
by Spone
& 1 other
Being NOTES and SLIDES on a talk given at PLAYFUL 09,
concerning CHARLES BABBAGE, HEATH ROBINSON,
MENACE and MAGE
by James BRIDLE
October 2009
TED: Ideas worth spreading
by ycc2106
& 18 others
TED is an organisation that invites inspirational people to an annual conference to share their thoughts on the world, technology, design and more. It videos the results and archives them here. Will keep you hooked for days.
Entertonement: Sounds, Sound Bites, Ringtones and Audio clips
by ycc2106
& 1 other
collection of sound bites and short quotes
Sponsorised links
September 2009
August 2009
Text To Speech, TTS: English, Spanish, French, Russian, Italian, German, Portuguese, Korean, Japanese, Chinese
by ycc2106
autodetects languages and reads it for you
Time Management Talk
by Spone
Time Management
Randy Pausch
Carnegie Mellon University
http://www.randypausch.com
Dial2Do - Home
by ycc2106
& 4 others
Dial2Do lets you do common tasks by just calling a number and speaking. Use it to send EMAIL or TEXT messages, record REMINDERS to help you remember things, post updates to your TWITTER or JAIKU stream and LISTEN to your favourite internet content. It's easy and handsfree.
July 2009
chirbit - micropodcasts - audio nuggets
by ycc2106
Chirbit is a free online tool for audio sharing. Enables users to record, upload, listen to and share sound bites easily. Recording from a webcam or mic there is roughly a 2 minute time limit.(I am working on extending this.) If you upload an mp3 or wav there is a 120MB file size limit which translates to about 2hours of mp3 or about 10 minutes of wav
June 2009
Voice on the Go Inc.
by ycc2106
6$/month - Handfree access to online webapps. Provides mobile subscribers with access to email, SMS, calendar, contacts, Twitter, Facebook and more…without typing, by voice at any time on any mobile device Subscribers can listen to, compose, reply and forward their email all by voice – hands-free and eyes-free safely while driving, or any other time. Currently, 50 countries .available in a number of languages including English (US
April 2009
Speech Toggle - Speech Recognition Toggling Software for Mac OS X
by ycc2106
Speech Toggle is a very simple freeware menu extra for Mac OS X which enables you to easily toggle Apple's speech recognition (Speakable Items) on and off. The software prevents you from having to make a trip to the System Preferences every time you feel the urge to temporarily use speech recognition.
IMO
by ycc2106
& 9 others
imo.im is a web-based service that allows users to hold text, voice, and video chats on multiple instant messaging protocols. Currently supported protocols include AIM, Google Talk, ICQ, MSN, MySpace, Skype, and Yahoo Messenger. The service is free and requires no user-registration or sign-up.
March 2009
Speechi
by ycc2106
Speechi is a tool that allows you to convert your PowerPoint presentations into Flash files (with no audio) and showcase them online. Moreover, thanks to the other three paid plans provided by Speechi, you can also record live lectures, add voice narration to your presentations and use the Speechi integrated whiteboard option within PowerPoint. Free sign up.
February 2009
December 2008
Jeffrey Zeldman: Presentations from Gain 2008 (AIGA)
by Spone
Author and Happy Cog founder Jeffrey Zeldman answers the question: what does a web designer need most?
May 2008
Read The Words - My Recordings
by springnet
most text to speech is awkward, this web app is really natural sounding and lets you make recordings, save them and embed them on your website. Really cool. Recommended
April 2008
Read The Words
by Nayko
& 6 others
, 1 comment
ReadTheWords.com is a free, web based service that assists people with written material. We do this by using TTS Technology, or Text To Speech Technology. Users of our service can generate a clear sounding audio file from almost any written material. We generate a voice that reads the words out loud, that you request us to read.
January 2008
December 2007
Self aware robots?
by flakki
Hod Lipson’s TED conference talk on emergent order pertaining to robot locomotion
