Jon Dean – Deano's World

I spotted this cool little widget add-on on Mashable the other day and have only just got round to testing it out.

It’s basically a text-to-speech button to make your blog posts an instant podcast which can be played on-screen or downloaded to your iTunes, save as an mp3 file and a few other options.

What’s really good about this is that it opens your blog (or any web-site for that matter) to people who have accessibility issues instantly.  Really helpful for people who are interested in you and your topic, but have problems reading that tiny text you’ve chosen as part of your theme (I know I’m a bugger for doing that!).

All you need to do is download it, ftp to your widgets admin then activate it.  Voila, instant podcast!

If you click on the “Listen Now” button below the blog title you get the listening options and you’re good to go.

I particularly like the Peter Kay’s Phoenix Nights type use of the glockenspiel at the start.

Oh and did I mention that it’s FREE…

You can check it out here at Odiogo’s website.

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