Life Rocks 2.0 points to a freeware application that will read web content aloud:
"Internet Text Speaker is a freeware utility which can speak any selected text from any website. Internet Text Speaker once installed will integrates itself to the Internet Explorer and Firefox context menu i.e. the right click menu. Whenever you want to listen to any text on the website, select the text and then right click and choose Speak Text option."
Given the recent decision by Amazon to cave to the Authors Guild regarding the text-to-speech feature in the Kindle2, I wonder whether applications like this will be next to be attacked by writers and the publishing industry.
After all, this tool is designed to create unlicensed derivative works…
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