Socialradio: Opening up a social "listening" era

Radio, I believe you've seen it or used it, have you ever thought about what it would be like to listen to the radio if you could still know what your friends were saying online when they left the table? Now Socila Radio can help you achieve!

Since the web version is still in beta, http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/13666.html ">social Radio has released its free Android apps recently, iOS and BlackBerry applications are still in the development phase. In other words, thanks to TTS technology, you'll soon be able to hear tweets loudly on your phone. If you are interested in this Web version, you can send a tweet that reads "I want to beta test @TheSocialRadio via @TheNextWeb", and the first 50 readers who posted this tweet can get an invitation.

To use this app, you just have to log on to your Twitter account, and Social Radio will start reading your tweets aloud, and you'll be able to enjoy your favorite music at the interval between tweets and tweets. If you're in the United States, you can listen to Google Music, but not Spotify.

Here's what this application looks like:

This app and web version gives you the freedom to choose whether to listen to all the content or a specific list/topic, and the survey shows that the latter can provide better results. If you follow a lot of people, those tweets sound like a bunch of random thoughts, and choosing a theme or tag can improve your experience.

The application recognizes the language of each tweet and reads it aloud in the appropriate language, and Social radio's "speakers" is fluent in many languages, but it is difficult to pronounce the word "tweet" in French, Spanish and Portuguese. Even in English, it takes some time to get used to the robot's intonation, not to mention the Lisp problem-"Gmail" reads G-m-a-i-l, "srsly" reads "S-r-s-l-y".

In fact, the initial flaws in most social radi are very much related to Twitter's short version design, making it difficult to apply translation abbreviations and links. And the link sometimes really makes the human brain angry, you do not want to click-Enter, the application will not give you any choice, because you can not return to repeat. You may also want to skip some links, but this app won't give you the option, at least not now.

To think about it, Social Radio is likely to be more relevant to Facebook, and is also planning to combine it with a longer and more conversational status update than tweets, which can appeal to a large number of users-from the blind to the driver, A jogging workout or a regular handyman-it's like a radio, just like its name radio.

Since social radio is still in its infancy, many people have seen the bright future of this application. The application, which was born in Buenos Aires (the Argentine capital), won a regional award for app Circus in the global app game a few months ago, which means that next year it will compete with other regional champions on the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

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