Since my last post about BlogTalker my laptop harddrive died taking the only extant working code with it. So much for backups.

The lazy web hasn't been so lazy lately. I pinged Randy Rants about adding IBlogExtension support to SharpMT. Several hours later he's ready to post a beta.

That got me thinking that I should put BlogTalker back together.

Here's the first cut. Source Included.

Generous borrowing from the plugins in RssBandit.

Currently it speaks the blog entry as well as writing it to a wave file. GUI config to come to control this as well as output options, externalization or editing of the [SSML](http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-speech- synthesis-20031218/), etc.

What I'd really like to do is extend the IBlogExtension metaphor such that it could iterate over a selection of feeds (or the Unread View in RSSBandit). If anyone has any pointers on pulling this off in RSSBandit, I would appreciate a pointer. That would be bossy.

As it stands, BlogTalker is a novelty, done because it could be. Nothing more. Nothing less.

Update To install, go to base directory of your supported reader (RSSBandit, SharpReaderNewsGator). Look for a plugins directory. Create it if it doesn't exist.

Copy BlogTalker.dll and Interop.SpeechLib.dll from the bin/Debug directory into your plugins directory.

Restart your reader. Right click on an rss item and select the plugin (in RSSBandit it shows inline, in SharpReader select plugins->BlogTalker)

Tested only on Windows XP with SharpReader and RSSBandit.