Comments on: WP Plugin: Listen Button

By: David Bradley Blogging Tips

David Bradley Blogging Tips — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:17:52 +0000

I’ve installed odiogo on http://www.sciencebase.com, but wondering how to control the placement of the button so that it’s wrapped into the text not stuck up above…

I’m sure there’s a simple hack to the plugin php and then a call from single-page theme file or something…any help greatly, as always

PS Listen to its pronunciation of Sciencebase, it’s odd but amusing…

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Montagsgrantler: Verseckelt und wie ein Dumbass… » Paperholic — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 09:06:18 +0000

[...] fühlt man sich, wenn man bei Odiogo - voice your content um eine Registrierung ansucht. So ein WordPress-Plugin, das einem (gratis) das Blöglein verpodcastet, wäre mindestens testenswert. ABER NIX [...]

By: Cody

Cody — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 19:05:34 +0000

It’s definitely a nice plugin, and I agree that the narration sounds very natural, although it did futz on certain words (how do you mess up “haha”?). I do wish there was more customization as to where you can put the listen button. We’ll have to get on Odiogo about making template tags you can stick in your theme to customize where the button and player container go.

By: Rhett

Rhett — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:43:46 +0000

This is really neat. I don’t think I need it on my site… but I want it, for funzies.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:58:39 +0000

Never mind, Mark. It was a setting in my local install. doh! :o)

By: Alex O

Alex O — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:35:50 +0000

This is quite a cool service, but will people using screen readers be able to click play on the flash movie? You could argue they don’t need it, but the screen reader would be able to skip through to the entry this way.

The voice is good, more natural than I expected.

^ I’m on Opera 9.21 on WinXP and all stylesheets are fine.

By: Tras el podcast, llega el ‘postcast’ | Mangas Verdes

Tras el podcast, llega el ‘postcast’ | Mangas Verdes — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:39:41 +0000

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By: Mark Ghosh

Mark Ghosh — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:23:21 +0000

Jonathan, try a hard refresh on your browser. It works fine here. Anyone else have this problem?

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:21:58 +0000

Hey Mark, off topic, but what happened to your site style? I’m getting no style sheet. (Debian “Etch” with Opera 9.21) Style sheets on other sites work.

By: Mosey

Mosey — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:52:06 +0000

Hehe, funky service! I’m actually impressed by the narration of ‘Listen Button’ seeing as it’s automated, it’s more natural than I had expected! I don’t see how it could be a long term service though (well, free), due to the file-size for a start, and presumably once it becomes popular the servers will have to handle a rather heavy load! Nevertheless, thanks for the info! I might actually try it out at some point

By: Mark Ghosh

Mark Ghosh — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:19:53 +0000

Aaron, I did notice that and I am glad that they are serving the file and not the users’ server. I agree that that is quite excessive.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:18:22 +0000

if you look at the podcast page you link to, it reports file sizes in the 100’s of megabytes. I hope this is an error because that is rather excessive.