For anyone who uses Twitter, Chirps is a clever way to add your own audio to your tweets.
- Chirps homepage
Audio messages can be recorded via computer or text entered into the Chirps site which is then converted to speech. Chirps is free to join.
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[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by SLAV Bright Ideas, Glenys Lowden. Glenys Lowden said: RT @brightideasblog: Add audio to your tweets: http://bit.ly/7nUhCu #slav #austl [...]
Haven’t seen Chirps being used on Twitter yet. It will be interesting to see if it takes off.