{"id":3002,"date":"2009-06-07T22:42:23","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T02:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/?p=3002"},"modified":"2009-06-07T22:42:23","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T02:42:23","slug":"listening-to-libology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/07\/listening-to-libology.html","title":{"rendered":"Listening to Libology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/podcasts.odiogo.com\/libology-blog\/podcasts-html.php\"><strong>Libology is now available in an audio version<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 This is made possible through a service called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.odiogo.com\/\">Odiogo<\/a>, which works with content providers to enable a streamlined means of creating downloadable audio files of web sites.\u00a0 What this means for readers is that you can download and listen to posts read by a machine that sounds like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stephen_Hawking\">Stephen Hawking&#8217;s<\/a> suave younger brother.<\/p>\n<p>While the voice definitely is computer generated, the inflections are quite natural, and the content very understandable.\u00a0 In addition, I hold any WordPress add-on to the golden rule:\u00a0 thou shalt not break validation for <a href=\"http:\/\/validator.w3.org\/check?verbose=1&amp;uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.libology.com%2Fblog%2F\">XHTML<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/jigsaw.w3.org\/css-validator\/validator?profile=css21&amp;warning=0&amp;uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.libology.com%2Fblog%2F\">CSS<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/validator.w3.org\/feed\/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.libology.com%2Fblog%2F\">RSS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Odiogo found via a post on <a href=\"http:\/\/catalogablog.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/audio-version-now-available.html\">Catalogablog<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Libology is now available in an audio version.\u00a0 This is made possible through a service called Odiogo, which works with content providers to enable a streamlined means of creating downloadable audio files of web sites.\u00a0 What this means for readers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/07\/listening-to-libology.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2919,2920,2958],"tags":[5338,4582,4581,5371,4580],"class_list":["post-3002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-blogs","category-podcast","tag-audio","tag-catalogablog","tag-odiogo","tag-podcast","tag-stephen-hawking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-Mq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}