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Ever wanted to micro-podcast to your FriendFeed? Try FriendBoo!
Did you recently stumble upon an increased amount of little audio message on FriendFeed?
A while back we introduced you to Vooices.us, a company driven by two extremely innovative fellows, Paul Rawlings and Paul Kinlan. A little bit later we pointed you to VooiceBoo, a service which aims at bringing speech based profile verification to Twitter.
Today we’d like to highlight yet another Vooices.us service, this time it’s called FriendBoo!
In a nutshell once you’ve authorized FriendBoo! to access your FriendFeed account you can start publishing audio messages to your FriendFeed via any phone. You dial into FriendBoo!’s service, login with a personal PIN code and record your message.
Thanks to a really seamless OAuth implementation, setting up the link from FriendBoo! to your FriendFeed account is a two-click/one second procedure.
Viewers of your feed can use the FriendFeed embedded audio player to listen to the recording from within their browsers. If you want to check out my first try, it’s here.
Of course there are other Voice-2-FriendFeed services, but we really like FriendBoo!’s simplicity. For example FriendBoo! does not ask you to create an additional account on their website, as others do. For somebody like me, who already has a thousand accounts here and there, this is fantastic and exactly as it should be.
If the two Pauls continue to innovate Web-Speech-Mash-ups at this pace, we’d love to see them getting more local access numbers. Time might also have come to hire a voice talent and let her do their announcements.
I can hardly stand that (Nuance?) text-to-speech lady anymore. :-)
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Expect no copies – use the real thing – http://audioboo.fm – much better and has an iPhone app too!
the real thing? how? does audioboo integrate with friendfeed or am i missing something? audioboo.fm looks a bit shit to be honest…
I’ve never used audioboo.fm but one key difference – as pointed out in the article – seems to be FriendBoo!’s simplicity. From a brief look at audioboo.fm it asks me to create an audioboo.fm account prior to letting me do anything – which is, what I don’t want to do.
FriendBoo! has you up and running merely within a second. And you don’t have to sign up to use it.
I’ve got to admit that I’m not a FriendFeed API expert but as far as I know they just recently added the ability to hand over attachments on an API level, so I wonder how audioboo.fm did it before.
Feel free to shed some light on how audioboo.fm integrated with FriendFeed and why it asks you to sign up.
have interests in friendbook ralf? – lol.
Your issues with signup etc are not ones held by everyone, and in fact those with accounts actually over time intergrate with the community at audioboo which is very rich, it is a conversation not just a broadcast one to many tool. all the things you mention are small things.
the api is constantly being worked on at audioboo so i have no fear in their ability to come through with features.
hey merp. you sound like a troll so i’ll keep this short (brain capacity and that) – it’s good actually and the community is rocking. some great people, great audioquality and the iphone application is brilliant! :)
They have a video offering soon as well!
nope sorry. not everyone who disagrees with your world-view is instantly a troll. ask your missus.
It’s not my fault audioboo is/looks/works/sounds shit. speak to your coders.
>They have a video offering soon as well!
No friendfeed offering though, hence my original query. please try and keep up you thick twat.
Thanks for sharing this! I’ve looked at quite a few apps which are similar, but most integrate with twitter at best. I’m not only looking for myself, but for my mother as well. She has recently lost all of her vision from Glaucoma, and I’m always on the hunt for anything that can make her life a little easier. For this reason, I’ve followed just about anything I can in assistive apps; including speech. I hardly expect to see her on Friendfeed, but I still like to keep up with most voice apps just because I find them interesting.
First off I would love to be able to use this for comments in addition to posts. I guess this will depend on Friendfeed more than FriendBoo to make it happen. I would also love to see transcription, and possible some kind of text to speech abilities. BTW, Kurtzweil has some excellent text to speech voices; so does IBM. The best I’ve heard is from a company called Wildfire. I’m not sure if they are in business anymore, but they’ve been doing it since 1999. Because I’ve heard what’s possible, I’m always puzzled whenever I find new applications with a Stephen Hawking like voice. I will definitely give this a try.
Arnaldo, have subscribed to our blog? :-)
We’ve covered Paul’s company (framework etc.) pretty regularly and are always first when these folks launch something new. We also were first when Voxeo (the company Vooices.us uses for the voice stuff) acquired IMified.
If you’re interested in this area, I’d like to invite you to subscribe and follow us @thenextweb, too.
Thanks for your feedback.
We are looking into ways into improving the audio quality thru other mechanisms
hey kate! – i love the community on audioboo as well – unlike some of these others. ..
we also have a UK access number but are looking into others
You might want to have a chat with the folks at Voxeo whether they can support you in any way. You do quite a good job in exposing Voxeo’s platform with a number of innovative services.
Get in touch with Voxeo’s http://twitter.com/danYork and see whether he can be of any help. Voxeo does have local numbers in all countries, and even global freecall numbers. The problem is: They usually charge for usage outside UK/US.
Send Dan my greetings and let us know how you move forward.
i’m sure an importer can be written or just pull in the rss feed, or a custom one to feed the mp3 in. sure it’s not native but i’m sure it could be plugged in easily.
check out spinvox. that’s a great product too. ;)
only dickheads use audioboo.