Speakapedia

Speakapedia is a tool for Mac OS X which creates podcasts from Wikipedia articles in 3 simple steps.

  1. Choose your article using the familiar wikipedia interface on your Mac.
  2. Speak it! Speakapedia will convert your article to speech.
  3. Listen to your article in iTunes or on your iPod or iPhone.

Bring Wikipedia to Life

Prefer listening to reading? Bring knowledge to life by letting Speakapedia automatically convert your chosen article into the spoken word.

Instant Album Art

The main picture found in the Wikipedia article is instantly used as your track’s album art.

Just the Interesting Stuff

All non essential text is filtered out, leaving just the main article text. You can also choose which sections within your article you wish to convert to speech.

Beautifully Organised

Your chosen article is stored in iTunes as an album with each section being a track.

iTunes Import

Speakapedia automatically imports your spoken articles into iTunes ready to listen or sync with your ipod or iphone.

Clear Voice

Speakapedia harnesses the latest advances in speech technology using “Alex”, Apple’s leading edge English speaking voice.