Text to Speech Podcasting widget for bloggers

Hi, fellow small business owners. 

This is the first blog post after installing a text to speech function to the site. This is a great idea for all bloggers to look at, as it not only provides a great function to you blog site but also a very user-friendly addition for the visually impaired.

If you have a blog for your small business you can now add this function as demonstrated on this site and the beauty is, it is absolutely free.

The product used here is Odiogo and seems to work well, and the voice is a pleasant one which doesn’t grate on the ear.

Odiogo works on Wordpress, Blogger, Typepad and other leading blog platforms.

The one thing you will have to take great care with is your punctuation. If you write your blog post and forget to use full stops, or comers, then the automated voice simply carries through the sentence without a break, making the sentence sound rushed and not a pleasant experience.

But there is more value in this product than first meets the eye. People reading your blog can download the article as an M.P.3. or automatically send to their iTunes or iPhone.

So now subscribers to your blog can listen to your article as a podcast as well. 

Once you have installed Odiogo on your blog, you will notice some functions below the play button, they are, a button to send your audio blog to iTunes, one to send the file to an M.P.3 player, and a button which says, More.

Clicking on the, More button will take you to another page which enables you to share your broadcast, or podcast in many ways, and to a number of social media sites.

The first section allows your clients to subscribe to your podcast via iTunes, Juice and Zune, as well as being able to share your podcast on such sites as Facebook, digg, and yahoo.

On top of that you or your blog audience can download your podcast as an M.P.3, this can also be used on your website as a way of getting people to subscribe to your blog. 

All in all, I can see many great uses for this little product, one which could help drive traffic to your site, or at the very least get your message to people who just do not have the time to read articles, but are quite happy to listen to them in the background while they get on with their work.

Thanks for reading, and now hopefully listening to this blog, we will bring you more innovations to help your S.E.O. and Internet marketing soon. In the meantime if you would like to chat about how we can help, then call me on 07867 546 101.

This article was written by Andy Phillips from Business For Life