Listening to newspapers: like reading TV
Steve Safran October 5th, 2006
The Washington Times has partnered with Newsworthy which has developed technology that lets you listen to an article online. (Seems to me this has been done before.) The headlines says “Don’t have time to read the news? Listen instead!” Don’t know about you - but it would take me a lot longer to listen to an article than to read one. Paidcontent calls the addition “shovelware” and finds it of little use, except perhaps for the sight-impaired. Agreed.
3 Comments Add your own
1. david johnson | October 5th, 2006 at 8:34 am
word. another example of traditional mindsets undervaluing real web journalism. a simple enough added service, but nothing to crow about.
2. Chris Krewson | October 5th, 2006 at 9:30 am
Interestingly, in my old job as online editor I once had a conversation with a blind man who surfed our newspaper site. He already had such a text reader, and had the speed jacked up to three or four times the regular rate of speech — that’s how many vision-impaired people “read” Web content.
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