The technology behind Tweetrad.io

9 points by wsbail29 16 years ago | 3 comments

http://tweetrad.io/blog/2009/11/05/tweetradio_technology.html

A couple of folks asked how tweetrad.io works behind the scenes (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=920610). Here's a little write-up on our technology and some of the choices we made while developing it.

sant0sk1 16 years ago |

> We also found that OS X’s say command provided somewhat more natural sounding voices. Our solution was to run the conversion processes on a cluster of several OS X boxes running at our homes.

That is awesome! If you ever want to free up those OS X boxes I recommend a couple of Mac Minis hosted at http://www.macminicolo.net/

wsbail29 16 years ago | |

thanks for the tip...I'll look into this!

wsbail29 16 years ago |

http://tweetrad.io/blog/2009/11/05/tweetradio_technology.htm...