Just added to the Tucson and Intermountain MLS systems yesterday. TEXT to Voice on all listing details in Tucson and Residential only on IMLS and the ability to add links to your audio tours. Now you can add links to your audio tours and add a custom message to each of your listings. This audio will play once the button is clicked by the user and will play once. The message can be heard while users view the photos or anything on that page.
The Text to speach is quite easy to do with a little programming knowledge. The service is free from www.voxMe.com. Here is an example of a listing in Arizona with...
Virtual Tour, PicLens, Lightbox Picture viewing, Custom Audio Message, and the Text to Voice. Granted the voice isn't the best but it does work and may come in handy for those who really don't want to read the page.
I added some extra text description in the master listing file to make the speach a little clearer but that won't help the listings with remarks input into the master MLS system from sounding strange. There may be a downside in the future to using acronyms and abbriviations in descriptions. As technology grows so does the little things that cause problems.
Check out the text to voice feature and let me know if you have any suggestions or comments. If there is a better service out there please pass it along. I forget which blog on Active Rain I saw the voxme.com idea but I will figure it out and get with them and see how they are doing on it.
Brian Blake www.my-mlsonline.com
Here is the code...
<embed src="http://www.hollowellbonding.com/media/Lynard_Skynard_-_Sweet_Home_Alabama.mp3" height="45" width="125"></embed>
