Comments on: Mendicant Bug Podcast http://mendicantbug.com/2009/07/12/mendicant-bug-podcast/ Wanderings into computational linguistics, science, social media and life... Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:51:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jason Adams http://mendicantbug.com/2009/07/12/mendicant-bug-podcast/#comment-1808 Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:07:14 +0000 http://mendicantbug.com/?p=1220#comment-1808 I’m using the wordpress.com version of wordpress, so can’t install my own plugins and haven’t been able to test that. I’ll think I’ll just add a permalink to the subscription page and leave it at that.

]]> By: John Cook http://mendicantbug.com/2009/07/12/mendicant-bug-podcast/#comment-1807 Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:03:07 +0000 http://mendicantbug.com/?p=1220#comment-1807 I hope Odiogo works well for you. I’m impressed with their speech engine overall. For example, one more example of good intonation. One of my posts had contained a line “Don’t ever, ever …” and Odiogo properly stressed the second “ever” as if I’d written “Don’t ever, EVER …” Surprisingly natural speech, though of course there are a few exceptions.

The only problem I had was that the WordPress plug-in made my site load slowly. Odiogo tech support insists that this doesn’t happen, but my site returned to its previous download speed once I disabled the plug-in. I still have the podcast, just not the “listen now” buttons on the site.

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