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'''Autocasting''' is an automated form of [[Podcast|podcasting]] that allows bloggers and [[blog]] readers to generate audio versions of text blogs from [[RSS (file format)|RSS]] feeds. Autocasting software uses [[XML]] parsers, [[Speech synthesis|TTS]] (text-to-speech) engines, and audio conversion utilities to convert text blogs into audio files that can be placed on a blog for download, synchronized to a portable audio device, or played on a desktop computer.  

In the gaming world, autocasting can also refer to a spell being automatically targeted and casted. (such as medic heal in starcraft and repairing in Warcraft)

==Related terms==
*[[Podcast|Podcasting]]
*[[Audioblogging]]
*[[Blogcast|Blogcasting]]
*[[Broadcatching]]
*[[Digital audio player]]
*[[iPod]]
*[[MP3 blog]]
*[[RSS (file format)]]
*[[web2.0]]

{{Podcasting}}
[[Category:Blogs]]
[[Category:Digital audio]]
[[Category:Web 2.0 neologisms]]

[[fr:Autocast]]

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