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Newsbot - Virtual Newscasters

Newsbot takes a BBC RSS feed (or any RSS feed) and turns it into speech read out by an animated avatar.

Ours chatbots can already read RSS feeds to answer questions like "what is the news/weather" but we thought it would be great to shrink-wrap the RSS reading part to create vritual newscasters.

The next stage of development would be to allow users to drill down to individual stories and have those read out too.

  • 16 Jun 2005 05:22 PM

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Oh that was fun! She didn't handle full stops too well but apart from that it was smashing - so funny reading out my RSS feeds.

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  • On 15 Jul 2005 09:57 AM,
  • Gids said:

That link is broken, remember to always link to full URLs including the 'http://' bit.

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