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Feed to Audio iPod
Function: Reads text from a web page, converts to audio, imports into iTunes and updates to iPod (if present).
Author: Justin Commu
Notes: This nifty workflow is essentially a personal Podcaster. The version here connects to this Wired news page and converts it to audio using the “Fred” voice (personally I would have used a female one ;)). Modify it for the webpage and voice of your choice (tip: set it to the current webpage for maximum flexibility).
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Do Something When will give you the ipod trigger you seek…
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Comment by Guck — April 24, 2007 @ 5:59 pm
Hey this is pretty cool. I made a similar one to this in automator that will get my new mail, and make event summaries from iCal, put it into text and then turn that into an audio file for my iPod. What I’m wondering is if there is anyway to tell automator WHEN to run certain actions? Are there system triggers available. i.e. WHEN iPod is detected by system, run this action. I could save it as an automator app and make it ‘run at login’ but that doesn’t help unless my iPod is always connected at login. I would like to just plug in the iPod, and it will go do the work for me, and then unplug the iPod. :)
Comment by Rob B — December 24, 2006 @ 1:08 am
i believe this only works exclusively for MAC OS right? :)
Comment by roanne — September 22, 2006 @ 12:53 am
The Workflow fails for me on the second action also
Comment by Bobby — February 28, 2006 @ 8:14 pm
I can’t seem to get this ti work, the second part of the workflow, ‘Get text from webpage,’ fails every time. I haven’t been able to get it to work in any of my workflows, has anyone experienced this before? Are there any knows cures?
Comment by Terry — January 31, 2006 @ 9:24 pm