If you wish you could get away from your desk and still keep up with whatever your friends are saying online, The Social Radio was made for you. The ambition of this Argentine startup is to let you listen to your social timeline as if it were a radio.
While its web version is still in Beta, The Social Radio officially launched its free Android app today, with iOS and Blackberry apps in the works. In other words, you’ll soon be able to play your tweets aloud on your phone thanks to speech synthesis. If you’re interested in the web version, you can send a tweet saying “I want to beta test @TheSocialRadio via @TheNextWeb” – the 50 first readers to tweet this will get an invite.
To start using the app, all you need to do is to sign in with your Twitter account. The Social Radio will start reading your tweets aloud, with a few seconds delay compared to your timeline. In between tweets, you can also listen to music from your own library. If you’re in the US, you can also stream tracks from Google Music – but not from Spotify. Here’s what the app looks like:
Both the app and the web version let you choose to listen to your full
timeline or focus on a specific list/topic. We found the second option
to give better results. If you follow many people, your timeline can
sound like a litany of random thoughts, while selecting a topic or a
hashtag may improve your experience.
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