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Telling robots about your crawl-able Ajax apps
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28 Apr 2010Weston Ruter wants to talk to the search robots out there and tell them about the URL format for crawling Ajax apps. Google came out with a spec for doing this with hash bang URLs such as: http://shepherdinteractive.com/#!portfolio/interactive/. What if we could tell Google and others something like: PLAIN TEXT HTML: <meta name=“crawlable-fragment-prefix” content=“/”> [...]
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Google Translate has rolled a out several new features, including the ability to hear your translated English text spoken by a computerized voice. For maximum cross-browser compatibility, Google Translate embeds text-to-speech mp3s using Flash. However, web developer Weston Ruter has already figured out how to grab the audio files for use on any webpage and [...]
Text to Speech via HTML5 Audio
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14 Dec 2009Weston Ruter has created a nice mashup that marries HTML5 Audio support in modern browsers with the new Google Translate API that does text to speech (for them): Recently Google Translate announced the ability to hear translations into English spoken via text-to-speech (TTS). Looking at the Firebug Net panel for where this TTS data was [...]
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