Comments on: Post by Voice

By: Doc Campbell

Doc Campbell — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 03:41:39 +0000

As you can tell… I don’t get out much.

I did a little research on this last night, and came across mention of the fact that Blogger had implemented it, then let it die – no idea why.

I would suspect it was due to a lack of acceptance by the users, rather than by the bloggers. I’m inclined to think that will be less of an issue today. I like it. I probably won’t use it that much, but when on the road, it’s a killer idea.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 02:07:00 +0000

It’s okay, Blogger did it like 10 years ago.

By: Colleen (@tixrus)

Colleen (@tixrus) — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 05:04:20 +0000

When & how will this be available for self hosted (wordpress.org) blogs? Or I will have to result to subterfuge like setting up a .com blog and voicing to it then embedding the posts in my real blog. And didn’t Google try this several years ago?

By: Doc Campbell

Doc Campbell — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 23:14:35 +0000

Pretty slick feature, Matt! I just heard about this today, in the WebProNews newsletter, and went and tried it out. Very nice, indeed!

You know, of course, this will soon be copied on Facebook, Twitter, etc.

That’s okay… we’ll know where they got the idea.

By: Allen Sale

Allen Sale — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:13:20 +0000

Interesting. Might this be done for self-hosted WordPress setups?

By: Branson Sparks

Branson Sparks — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 02:53:36 +0000

Looks great… I would LOVE to see it as a plugin for self-hosted installs. When I was looking through blog engines, this was a neat feature that Tumblr had that I envied.

Woohoo for WordPress!

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 15:22:59 +0000

You can make a call from anywhere, even a pay phone.

By: Gerry Sell

Gerry Sell — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 23:55:00 +0000

Well, I tried it. I can see lots of possible applications–lots and lots–but none of them have a lot of appeal unless I could voice-post to a draft. Then I could add some text and graphics to the voice part, and make a good title, and . . . keep from embarrassing myself if I record something idiotic.

By: OK Matt – I tried an Audio Post « Torch Lake Views

OK Matt – I tried an Audio Post « Torch Lake Views — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:56:57 +0000

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By: Anup

Anup — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 21:23:47 +0000

When one can blog videos, why should one use the scaled down media? After all mobiles now a days have high speed connectivity to upload video files.

By: Ffej Doowta

Ffej Doowta — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:03:55 +0000

But what about this: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/06/whatever-happened-to-voice-recognition.html?

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:29:00 +0000

This got me jokily wondering to myself how long before Google starts to index audio files, but it turns out they already can!

It’s only used to a very limited extent currently (the politician channel on YouTube), but will be interesting to see if it develops further.