Speechification seems to be going well. People like it. We're getting more and more listeners (resulting in slightly larger S3 bills for us every month) and Roo is steadily adding new, technically cleverer things. It's also clear that the BBC are hard on our heels, implementing things that will make some of what we do redundant, not right now, but eventually.
So it seems like we should work harder at our larger mission - curating English language speech radio from around the world - and doing that means we've got some big gaps to fill, the biggest being North America. We all follow shows like This American Life and Radio Lab via podcast but we can't keep linking to them all the time; we need someone to do the hard slog of listening to radio all day, ferreting out the obscurer wonders of NPR and CBC. Anyone fancy doing it? It's not very onerous, a post a week would probably do. And with a lot of NPR you don't even have to grab the audio, they archive such a lot online. Drop us an email ([email protected]) if you're interested and we'll get you set up.
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