Ever wish your computer could read your RSS feeds to you? Or how about being able to download your feeds as a podcast and listen to them in the car on the way to work?

VocalFruits is a new service from xFruits that will read out loud to you. It takes a few dozen steps to sign up for the free service. But once you do, you can listen to a mildly annoying computerized voice read your feeds on a website or save the feed as a podcast.

The idea is great, and the execution is... decent. The digitized voice does a pretty good job with punctuation, pausing and stopping at most of the right points. But it also voices the "read," "permalink," "email this," and "comments" section at the bottom of each Download Squad post. These sort of programs haven't yet figured out the difference between the body of a blog post and the extra data that most blogs and news websites include.

[via StartupSquad]