Talkr Integrated into JW Flash Players

Talkr.com’s Web-leading text-to-speech service has been integrated into the family of JW Flash players and is easily available to all!

Most people use flash players to play music or videos… now there’s a new option: listening to your favorite blogs or text RSS feeds.

You can send a JW flash player a text-only RSS feed – in the same way you would send it an RSS playlist of songs – and each post in the feed will be converted to an MP3 and entered in the playlist.

Most simply, here is a link to a player where I take a news feed from CNN directly into the JW player and let the player convert the text feed to mp3s and create a playlist:

Talkr CNN demo

Here’s another example where I used FeedBlendr.com to blend text feeds from CNN, ESPN and MSNBC into a single feed and listen to it via the JW player:

Talkr Feedblendr demo

Here’s another example where I use a JW player to listen to my RSS feed from Ebay where I search for first edition books:

Talkr Ebay demo

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In the last two examples, the player is unable to take the feeds directly from FeedBlendr.com and Ebay because of the crossdomain issues that exist with Flash (and that Jeroen covers in detail elsewhere better than we can). In that case, you can simply use Talkr.com to make it work:

1) Come to Talkr.com and register as a user, here Register at Talkr .

2) Then go to Search for Feeds here Search for Your Feed and type in the feed giving in problems.

3) Talkr will convert that text feed to a new feed with MP3s already built in, simply use that new feed address as the input to the player. To see all the feeds you’ve created, first sign in then go here My Feeds