Remember that Qwiki demo at TC Disrupt last month? I figured something like that might be useful, but for your morning routine of checking your various web accounts.<p>http://verbaljuicer.com<p>It's currently a Safari extension and uses the very good OS X text-to-speech engine.<p>There's a JavaScript API to add scripts for any other website you want to track. If you write a script for a new site, email it to me at david at davidcann.com and I'll add it to the gallery.<p>Stats: I made most of it in about 3 days, then polished it for another 3 days.<p>What do you think? Should I port it to Chrome?
I'd love to use it, but I'm on Windows 7 with Chrome.<p>If you port it I'd be willing to pay $ for it, maybe have a free version with those default sites but a paid that allows more sites to be integrated and allow users to submit their integrated sites?<p>Well anyway, nice idea, shame I can't use it :-(
Wow! I am amazed by this.<p>Some out-loud thinking;
I wonder if you can apply this to news delivery in full. What I mean is, If I could submit a URL of the NYT business column and request that every morning, your app email me the mp3 file covering the whole column or just one article.<p>Essentially I can be listening to my morning paper on the go rather then reading it or needing a browser.<p>Very cool app! Nicely done
Its great to see others like Qwiki and verbaljuicer getting and or interested in the alarm clock content space. Our alarm service(sleep.fm) speaks weather reports and soon(<a href="http://sleep.fm/coming-soon" rel="nofollow">http://sleep.fm/coming-soon</a>) wakes and tells you if your airline flight is delayed or on-time.<p>Though we only speak and repeat up to 8 seconds of alarm info. Were interested to see in time how this upcoming industry plays out. Does the general population want to hear just a buzzing noise, 5 to 8 seconds of personalized alarm info or hear an alarm voice reading 10 minutes or more of alarm personalized information? What can people grasp upon waking up?<p>Myself, I set three alarms and finally by the 2nd or 3rd alarm im able to grasp the weather condition and what the temperature will be around.<p>Id love to try this when you have a windows version available. Good luck!
This is awesome, please port it to Chrome.<p>Also, any chance you can release the source for the page plugins you've already written? A couple aren't working for me (for example I need the weather to search google.co.uk not google.com) and it would be nice to be able to just make a quick edit rather than starting anew.
This great, and I am already thinking of plugins to add to it. The speed it takes to switch from one section to another could easily be increased by loading the list of sites on tabs in the background as it is reading off the data.<p>And, yes please port it to Chrome.
Looking at your HTML Code:<p>- Don't pollute the global namespace<p>- Use Event binding instead of attribute events. Avoid inline JavaScript<p>- Delete comments before deploying (and compress HTML, JS, CSS)<p>Nice and simple design. Would like to see how this works in Chrome.