Davy Mitchell is asking for feedback on a comp.lang.python podcast demo that he recently created. When I first read his post, I was pretty excited about another Python podcast being added to the mix (Python411 being the other one). But after a quick listen, I discovered it was put together with text-to-speech… ugh!

Perhaps others will disagree, but I think it is absolutely unlistenable. I think I’d rather listen to somone stuttering through lines and popping their P’s on a cheap mic than have to endure a fake female voice saying “aich tee tee pee colon slash slash double you double you double you dot….”

Great idea and interesting hack, but I’d have to give this one a thumbs down.

Update: Davy bought a USB mic and might try doing a real Python podcast. I’d imagine there are quite a few Pythonistas who’d love to listen in.

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