This article was published on April 23, 2008

Starting tomorrow: listen to your RSS feeds with Dixero


Starting tomorrow: listen to your RSS feeds with Dixero

We love scoops and we know you do as well. So here’s one: Swiss RSS service Dixero is going to launch tomorrow. Yet another RSS service, you ask. Yes! But this one is doing something new. It allows you to aggregate your favorite feeds and moreover, it transforms posts into audio by using different computer-generated voices. That means you can put the latest post of this blog on your iPod and listen to the audio version while traveling or working out. How time-saving and efficient is that?

Luca Mascaro (ceo Dixero.com), Ernst-Jan & Dafne Gobbi
Luca Mascaro (ceo Dixero.com) & Dafne Gobbi

One little doubt here though: will the technology behind Dixero manage to recognize names, especially the weird 2.0 ones like blurb? I mean, the idea of the service sounds good, yet if I only get non-understandable audio files I won’t use Dixero.

So according to chief strategy officer Lucas Mascaro and Dafne Gobbi we can test that out tomorrow. They’ve traveled all the way from Lugano, Switzerland to launch the service under the eyes of the Web 2.0 attendants. For now, watch this informative video featuring Luca:

[youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=8mxG_9kRK9E]

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Update: Frederic Martin left a comment saying this kind of service already exists. Check it out.

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