Listen wikipedia articles in MP3 or via SMS

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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how to access blocked mail sites

Is accessing mail sites blocked at your school, office or organisation? There is an alternate way to access the restricted mail sites i.e. WAP sites. WAP sites load faster and are quite handy for both dial-up users and if your Internet traffic plan charges per byte transferred.

1. Google:- visit, http://www.google.com/xhtml?hl=en i.e. Google WAP site and you can search, access Gmail and Google News .

2. Yahoo:- Yahoo mail, Messenger, Cricket .etc. can be accessed by visiting http://wap.yahoo.com, and selecting your country.

3. msn:- msn mobile can be accessed at, http://mobile.live.com/pocketpc/default.aspx?mkt=en-US, where you can check your hotmail and live spaces .etc. Change mkt=xxx and access it in your language, e.g. mkt=es to access it in spanish language.




4. Rediff:- rediff WAP site can accessed at http://mobile.rediff.com, where you can check your mail, news .etc.

*Note:- Some WAP sites work only in Firefox web browser and require the wml browser plugin to be installed.

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