Now you can listen the wikipedia articles in MP3 audio format.There is Germany based internet company PEDIAPHON which allows the users to listen any wikipedia article. Definitely they are using the text to speech conversion application.This is snap shot from the website which clears lot of things.
When i tried to make MP3 of article related to All time great cricket player Sachin tendulkar , Then the result was this.See the snap shot.
They generated MP3 file along with the playlists for winamp,windows media player and Itunes .
They also have a facility which enables the users to listen the articles via sms. Send a SMS with the keyword "pedia" blank "en" (lower case) SEARCH WORD (a term in the Wikipedia to look up want you) to: +49-151-59111661.This is Germany based number so for others international rates are applied.
After that wait 2 minutes and then call (with the same telephone, and/or same number of sender) the land line German number:+492311774088 ,International rates are applied. The announcement starts automatically. (if somewhat went wrong, and/or the number cannot be assigned to the SMS, there is a busy signal without a unit lost.)
Users can access this service via wap also.Wap interface for pediaphon is http://prt-i61.fernuni-hagen.de/~bischoff/radiopedia/wap_en.wml
Note: Company says it coming to UK and US soon.
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