{"id":60,"date":"2006-08-31T11:27:54","date_gmt":"2006-08-31T19:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.otherthings.com\/blog2\/?p=60"},"modified":"2006-08-31T11:27:54","modified_gmt":"2006-08-31T19:27:54","slug":"testing-talkr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/testing-talkr\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing Talkr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will wonders never cease?  You can now listen to a nice, friendly computer-generated lady <a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.talkr.com\/app\/display_feed.app?action=display&#038;feed_id=18576&#038;last_read=all_time\">read my blog out loud<\/a> in the form of an mp3 file.  You can even <a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.talkr.com\/app\/cast_pods.app?feed_id=18576\">subscribe to a podcast<\/a> if you like.  Although since my blog these days consists mainly of photos and video, I can&#8217;t imagine why you&#8217;d want to.  Maybe you need material for your next postmodern audio collage.  If so, by all means, have at it! :-)<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.talkr.com\/app\/cast_pods.app?feed_id=18576\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.talkr.com\/images\/xml-podcast.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As for Ms. Talkr herself, she&#8217;s pretty good for a computer-generated voice.  Her sense of rhythm is as comical as you&#8217;d expect, but at least she pronounces most of the words right.  Except for the title of this blog.  That always comes out wrong.  Maybe I should have spelled it &#8220;Runghy Chunghy&#8221; instead!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will wonders never cease? You can now listen to a nice, friendly computer-generated lady read my blog out loud in the form of an mp3 file. You can even subscribe to a podcast if you like. Although since my blog these days consists mainly of photos and video, I can&#8217;t imagine why you&#8217;d want to. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/testing-talkr\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Testing Talkr<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self-reference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}