Talking Voices Ireland

it@cork are starting a podcasting project this year - thanks to the generosity of Microsoft! “This is something we have wanted to do for a long time” said Tom Raftery, it@cork’s podcasting consultant, “with Microsoft’s financial backing, we can now get this project off the ground.”

it@cork’s podcasting project is to record interviews with thought leaders in the it@cork member companies. The interviews will involve senior management telling compelling stories around their businesses - the story of their company, what the company does, what’s interesting about the space they are in, etc. and it@cork will podcast those interviews. The plan is to publish one interview a week, so over the course of 2006/7 it@cork will publish 50+ thought leader interviews. more>
[bhg comment: congrats to Tom and IT@cork for the hard work]

MagneticTime (www.magnetictime.com), the innovative mobile audio company, announced today MT-Podcast, which lets anyone produce podcasts without the need for voice recordings. MT-Podcast will be available in Q2 and will revolutionize podcasting through deleting the need to record people speaking.

Users - corporate, departmental, team or individual - need only write their script in a Word document, and let MT-Podcast be their podcast announcer. MT-Podcast translates script into a natural sounding male or female voice in MP3 format, which can be posted on the internet as a podcast, as well as played on any MP3 player (including iPod, PDAs, mobile phones/cellphones, and PCs).

MT-Podcast lets anyone produce professional-sounding podcast recordings, easily and at low cost.

To create a podcast, people currently must read a script into a microphone, and then convert the recording into an MP3. The UK’s Stuff magazine - and many other magazines and newspapers - currently produce podcasts this way. MT-Podcast simplifies this process by automatically and accurately translating written Word documents to MP3 Podcasts without the need for recorded voice. MT-Podcast can also be used for training manuals and news services, and anywhere else where people have traditionally had to read and record written material.