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No time to read the day’s news on your homepage before hopping in the car and rushing off to work? Check out what Pimp My News, a new text-to-speech service which converts your favorite news and blog sites into audio. When you create a free account with Pimp My News, you’ll be able to specify which news sites and/or blogs you wish to have PMN convert to mp3 files. You’ll then be able to listen to these files on your iPod, computer, iPhone, and other mp3 playing devices. To find blogs and news items to subscribe to, you can search the PMN site by category, tag or by Google keyword search. If you find something that you like, you can submit the story and/or feed to the community and either rate it yourself or have others do so.
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“PimpMyNews scours the web 24/7 for text news & blog posts that YOU like and converts them to MP3s that you listen to (vs. R-E-A-D) on your iPod, iPhone or PC - anytime, anywhere!
• Stay current on the news and blogs YOU care about
• Save time - your favorite stories come to YOU
• Listen on-the-go - in the car, at the gym - anywhere
• Express Yourself - share & rate stories, create playlists & more”
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Pimp My News is convenient for anyone with a long commute who doesn’t want to or doesn’t have time to read news either in print or online. Personalized channels with handpicked feeds make it easy to customize your account to your liking, and unlike other TTS services I’ve reviewed, this one allows you to download the mp3 file so you can listen to it on your iPod, phone, or computer.
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The quality of the TTS technology leaves something to be desired; it stumbles over the occasional word.
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written by Stevo 3 Months 28 Days ago | |
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written by Ande000 7 Months 3 Days ago | |
| This site is great! Having Pimp my News do the legwork of finding all the news and stories that are relevant to me has saved myself alot of time. Also I don't have to be stuck on the couch or computer to catch the news and the best thing is that its FREE!!! | ||
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written by tyler durdan 7 Months 11 Days ago | |
| really cool site.. thanks for the info about pimpmynews. however, i think the name should be changed to pimp my drive to work! i just downloaded the iphone app and its real tight. i totaly recommend it! | ||
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written by theman 7 Months 17 Days ago | |
| man, this site is really cool and the iPhone app works really well. And I tried that dixero.com site and it sucks--it's not customizable like PimpMyNews. | ||
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written by swvorthy 7 Months 26 Days ago | |
| I just started using this... it is great! I don't have time to read the paper in the morning, so the playlists I can make on the site for my iPod are perfect! Ya, the voice isn't amazing, but after a few minutes, you don't even notice it. And, if you hear something mispronounced, you can submit something on the site so they can correct it. Give this a try! | ||
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written by Ali 9 Months 22 Days ago | |
| On www.dixero.com you can see another service that does the same thing. | ||
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written by GadjitGeek 9 Months 25 Days ago | |
| Site works great - Voices are much better than other computer voices - best features are a) you can get continuous updates on your blogs without having to go to lots of other sites, and b) listen on an iPhone whereever you happen to be. | ||
