Did you hear the news? Of course you did if you’re using BuzzVoice, an Android app the speaks the news. BuzzVoice takes the news of the day and has a custom voice engine read the story aloud. Users can stay up to date with their favorite sites, including Androinica.com, even if they are unable to read at the moment. BuzzVoice ($4.99) is billed as “Pandora for news” because it gives users the opportunity to select what stories are read. Someone can search for a topic and then select stories to put in a playlist, or listen to curated stories based on a topic (Android, Celebrity, Sports, Politics, etc.). Then BuzzVoice will read the text aloud in case you’re working out or driving. The custom text-to-speech voices can be somewhat choppy but it’s better than the default TTS library for Android. There are more than 1,600 blogs and news sources available in Read More

Did you hear the news? Of course you did if you’re using BuzzVoice, an Android app the speaks the news. BuzzVoice takes the news of the day and has a custom voice engine read the story aloud. Users can stay up to date with their favorite sites, including Androinica.com, even if they are unable to read at the moment. BuzzVoice ($4.99) is billed as “Pandora for news” because it gives users the opportunity to select what stories are read. Someone can search for a topic and then select stories to put in a playlist, or listen to curated stories based on a topic (Android, Celebrity, Sports, Politics, etc.). Then BuzzVoice will read the text aloud in case you’re working out or driving. The custom text-to-speech voices can be somewhat choppy but it’s better than the default TTS library for Android. There are more than 1,600 blogs and news sources available in Read More

. If you're a busy person or simply a slacker, that is too lazy to read the news you're interested in, then is the application that you need. The Android application lets users to listen more than 1,600 top news and blogs on smartphones and other mobile devices. As the developer named it, the app is like a “Pandora for news,” helping people to keep up with news even when they're traveling by car, train, or they're simply working out in a gym. Besides its funny side, the application also feature a safety side which ensures that users are 100% alert when they're driving or doing anything that requires their full attention. Although the application has been available on , iPad and iPod Touch for a while, the Android version of BuzzVoice brings in three new interesting features, that the above mentioned device does not have: Background Audio Streaming, which enable Read More

Call me crazy, but my Android phone and I have been having some great conversations lately. With Google's new Voice Actions, I've been using voice commands to control my handset every day. And now, thanks to a new app about to hit the Android Market, my phone's started talking back to me, too. The app is called BuzzVoice, and it turns your favorite blogs and news sites into personalized streaming podcasts. It's aimed at making it easy (and safe) to keep up with news on-the-go -- in your car, at the gym, wherever -- and it has the potential to change the way you consume information. I was able to spend some time with the program in advance of its upcoming launch. Here's an exclusive sneak peek at how it works and what it can do for your phone. [Get Android Power delivered to you. Follow @AndroidPower on Twitter or subscribe Read More