The technology behind Tweetrad.io

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http://tweetrad.io/blog/2009/11/05/tweetradio_technology.html

A couple of folks asked how tweetrad.io works behind the scenes (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=920610). Here's a little write-up on our technology and some of the choices we made while developing it.

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> We also found that OS X’s say command provided somewhat more natural sounding voices. Our solution was to run the conversion processes on a cluster of several OS X boxes running at our homes.

That is awesome! If you ever want to free up those OS X boxes I recommend a couple of Mac Minis hosted at http://www.macminicolo.net/

thanks for the tip...I'll look into this!

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