Saturday, May 27, 2006

Speed Read With Your Eyes Shut

Q: What do you get when you cross:

* your Mac
* your ipod
* Project Gutenberg, my favourite source of great literature in goold old single-file ASCII text
* Cepstral William, the sexiest robot text-to-speech voice around, and
* Audio Hijack Pro to capture whatever William says and turn it into bookmarkable mp3 files to put on your ipod...?

A: A supply of the world's best audiobooks that will last longer than you will, that you can take anywhere with you, enjoy with your feet up and your eyes closed (unless you're driving, of course). But not only that, unlike a normal audiobook that you might buy from Audible, you can crank the speed up to whatever your brain can handle! Speed reading with your eyes shut. Cool.