Read2Me

This was part of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business

AeA/Stanford Executive Institute, 2006 – 2006 course. Click here for more info. Tied for People's Choice award.

Read2Me

Read2Me.com is revolutionary web service which allows portable media player to read your documents so that you can make use of the spare time in your day. We do this by using state of the art text 2 speech technology to convert emailed documents into podcasts. You then listen to your document when you otherwise could not read. For example when driving to and from work.

Edison Media Research estimated that active podcast professional will rise from 210,000 in 2005 to 14 million users in 2010 in North America.

Read2Me.com will increase barriers to competition by:

Patenting the service & technology.

Use large promotion budget to gain first mover advantage.

Use a feedback mechanism to improve the quality of the text 2 speech and provide personalization.

Click here to watch video about Read2Me and download the slides.