Friends Aloud (Android)

Friends Aloud is a personalized “News Radio” that broadcasts your friends’ news directly to you, then lets you speak your responses, including comments and likes. Friends Aloud enables you to stay connected with your friends anytime, anywhere. Using state of the art text-to-speech and speech-to-text technology, you can listen hands-free to everything your friends post in a soothing voice and then speak your replies, all while you’re driving, walking, working out, or just relaxing. Why listen to gritty news that you don’t really need to know from around the world, when you can listen and respond to news from the people you care about instead?

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Friends Aloud for Android

Reads aloud your latest Facebook news feed posts and their associated comments in a pleasant, easy-to-understand voice (either the default Android voice, or others that you may have installed from TTS suppliers such as SVOX or Loquendo)
Dictate status updates, comments, and "like" your friends' posts with Google-powered automatic speech recognition, complete with punctuation
Displays each post on the screen, so that you can tap around to read posts at random
Automatically shifts to reading only new posts for as long as you leave the app running
Intuitive play, pause, and skip forward/back buttons
Can continue reading aloud while in the background
Understands and reads some common computer jargon such as smiley faces, texting-style abbreviations (LOL, ROTFLMAO, etc.)
Can mute posts from friends or “liked pages” that you prefer to skip
Uses Facebook Connect to log into your Facebook account
Number of comments read can be limited to none or the latest 5, 10, 20, or 50
Reads headlines of links, photo albums, and videos
Read as far back in time as you wish by tapping “Older posts"

Benefits of Friends Aloud

Listen to your friends’ postings and reply by voice while driving, walking, in a meeting, at work, anywhere your eyes are otherwise occupied
Never miss your friends’ news, even while you’re rushing around
Relax your eyes by listening to, instead of reading, your friends’ news
Hands-free operation keeps you from getting pulled over for "texting while driving"
And most importantly, it could prevent an accident and save your and/or anothers' life