Watch the movie demonstrating the explanations below.

@Login

First of all, please create your account on Read It Later. With Read it Later, you can save pages from a lot of web browsers or iPhone apps. Then, you can log in from Settings on Lisgo.

@Read It Later Tab

Swipe a cell to left to add the selected page to Playlist. Swipe a cell to right to archive the selected page on Read It later.

@PlayList Tab

Swipe a cell to right to remove the selected page from Playlist.

@Edit the order of pages

At Read It Later and Playlist tab, if you hold icons of left side on a cell you can edit the order of each pages.

@Remote control

You can control Lisgo from a headset of iPhone. If you want to contol from locked screen on iPhone, push the home button twise when iPhone screen is locked.

Hello, I would like to show the progress of Lisgo’s read it later supported version.

Currently, a few people have joined the beta of Lisgo’s next version and give me very good advices. I am learning a lot from users about how they use Lisgo, and what are pains for them.

Some read it later users joined the beta from read it later forum and they really encourage me a lot.

Lisgo’s RIL supported version is already useful to me and it is much easier to make my playlist to listen than previous version.

I will relase it on app store very soon after I add some very basic features. Meanwhile, I recorded the movie to show how the latest version is.

Hello, the read it later support version of Lisgo is ready for beta test now!

I started using it by myself from several days ago.
To be honest with you, I really love it!

Now, you can choose the articles you want to read via read it later through the web, or other apps, then you just sync these reading list on Lisgo and start listening to them.

You can even archive the pages via Lisgo by swiping a cell of a page to right very easily.

If you want to try it as soon as possible, and if you are willing to give your feedback to me via mail@lisgo.org or @Lisgo_tweet, why don’t you join the beta test?

Joining the beta test is very easy thanks to testlfight service.

You just click the link below and receive an email from testflight, then click the link in the email from your iPhone so you are ready to go. No iTunes sync anymore.

http://tflig.ht/mXZ9Do

PS:
I can register only 100 devices for beta test per year, so I need to limit invitations for beta test in the near future. If you are interested in Lisgo, please join the beta test now.

I recoreded a preview of Lisgo’s read it later support!
My English is not good though, sorry!

There are lots rooms I have to improve yet, but you can see how it works anyway. Please note that the voice engine is not implemented on this demo version, I will add it later.

For example, I am demonstrating how you can add pages from your read it later list or archive them using swipe. You can even sort each pages without tapping edit button.

It’s quick and very easy to use. Please send me an email at mail@lisgo.org or mention me at @Lisgo_tweet if you have any questions.

Thanks.

I recently found out Vocalyze when I was looking for advices on #startups on IRC channel. “Listen to the web” concept is exaclty the same one to Lisgo.

It seems that Vocalyze is the most promosing startup on this category. As always, I tried their web service and iPhone app to learn more.

@Voice quialiy is pretty good

The voice quality for vocalyze is pretty decent, they provide the voice speech part from their web server so they don’t need to minimize the voice quality in order to minimize the size of App.

In comparison to Acapela Speech engine of Lisgo and VoiceBrief, I don’t see so much significant difference between them though.

Even though I tested lots of voice engines but I still can’t tell what voice engine they use, anybody know?

@RSS feed functionality

It seems users can get any RSS feeds via their service, but you can’t customize them or make your own playlist. This is the main part I am really forcusing on at Lisgo.

I want to listen to the web articles I choosed so implementing RSS feeds is not enough. I want to implement my read it later list and make playlist from them, or I need to make playlist from RSS feeds easily.

they should be done very quickly and easily with easy to use interface.

In this first post, I want to talk about an iPhone app called voicebrief. This App has very similar concept of Lisgo, and I can tell there are many people who want to listen to the web contents from the success of this App.

Table of contents

*RSS function of voicebrief
*Voice quality

RSS function of voicebrief

I like reading books and web content so I always wanted an iPhone app to listen to them on the go, but there was not a good one for that before.

At March this year, I decided to make the App by myself, and started learning iPhone development. Just at the time, Voice Brief got released on App Store and I tried it right away.

It looks quite nice tool if you want to listen to the feeds of facebook, twitter, e-mail, RSS feeds. However, I just want to listen to the RSS feeds so I tried the RSS function only.

I believe voiceBrief is the best text to speech app on App Store now if you want to listen to your RSS feeds. But, there are several problems which is quite difficult to solve for developers.

If blog owners did not allow RSS to feed full contents, voice brief can’t load all of them. There are a quite few blogs do not show their full content on RSS, so it is quite difficult problem.

I plan to implement RSS function to Lisgo, and I need to solve this problem.

Other than that, you can’t read RSS content like other popular RSS reader apps, so you can’t switch from listening to reading in this App yet.

Voice quality

Speaking of the voice engine, it uses the same voice engine of Lisgo, which is acapela text to speech. Acapela voice engine is quite good, you can check the quality here.

VoiceBrief covers English only now, but there are other European languages available on Acapela text to speech engine, so we might be able to use voicebrief with another languages.

Unfortunately, there are no Asian languages like Chinese, Japanese, Korean on Acapela speech now. I contacted them about it, and they said they would talk about implementing these languages end of this year.