Speak It! app and some damn efficient use of time
By ribeye 1 Comments
I found an app last night called Speak It! and so far i'm loving it. Being a wannabe indie game dev myself I've been ramping up on the blog following of certain game developers and it was becoming a bit time-intensive. So i thought, all this news and info is taking more and more time to ingest....i need my news condensed and injected directly into my cortex, son! So i searched the app store for text to speech and found Speak It!
My time is already stretched pretty thin, I have a wife and two kids and a full time day job and i haven't found a way to get around that whole eating and sleeping thing (while maintaining my existence and my sanity)....all of these things take time and this app is going to allow me to take in an inordinate amount of info to the point that i'm pretty sure i'm breaking at least one law of physics. I also listen to the bombcast, kotaku, maximum pc and the indie game dev podcast.
I listened to Jonathan Blow's post about how he's doing terrain in The Witness (which was quite a long post) this morning on my way into work and it was being read to me surprisingly well by a lovely sounding British woman. So instead of sitting in front of my computer and reading all of that, I maximized my time and listened to it on my drive into work. That's amazing to me, I'm gonna be able to cram in a lot more and keep up with all of it, that is some seriously efficient use of time. I can now listen to this stuff in any little down time i have during the day, while i'm driving or walking somewhere, or while i'm drinking or doing yard work..or both!
I copied his whole post, pasted it into an email and sent it to myself. Then i checked my email on my phone and copied and pasted it from there into Speak It and it worked perfectly. I even pasted in his screen shots, his post in its entirety and Speak It handled it no problems. In case you were wondering, it didn't read the screen shots to me, it skipped them without a hitch, the point is I didn't have to bother making little edits to the text, just copy, paste, bam, done. You can save the text, or as many entries as you want, or you can convert it to an audio file and listen to it later. It even has a slider for how fast it reads up to 2x. You can also choose which voice you'd like to have speaking to you. I prefer the British woman. She sounds pretty hot. For a robot.
I've already found that I have to reel it in and remind myself that this is actually cliffyb or whoever talking, and not some hot British lady that wants to take me home..
I was already listening to my podcasts at 2x and now that I've found a way to listen to all these blogs I'll be speeding them up as fast as I can while still being able to understand what she's saying
freakin'
awesome