PimpMyNews.com - Text To Speech News and Blogs

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.

“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”

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.

The quality of the TTS technology leaves something to be desired; it stumbles over the occasional word.