My possible startup idea on the web/speech was to have a bookmarklet that would send the URL of the page you are on to my service, it would check for recordings of that page, and if any were found embed a flash player in the page so you could hear the text.
If not, you could record something and send it in. It would be a web2 site in the sense that other people would do most of the work ;)
However, I forsee more problems than really useful features, including: checking for accuracy and verbal abuse hidden in submitted recordings, the sheer amount of stuff on the internet making it unlikely that you'd find what you're looking for, and the fact that really (near)blind people would already have screen readers and embedded flash wont help too much, and comments on blogs wouldn't be a good fit for it.
If not, you could record something and send it in. It would be a web2 site in the sense that other people would do most of the work ;)
However, I forsee more problems than really useful features, including: checking for accuracy and verbal abuse hidden in submitted recordings, the sheer amount of stuff on the internet making it unlikely that you'd find what you're looking for, and the fact that really (near)blind people would already have screen readers and embedded flash wont help too much, and comments on blogs wouldn't be a good fit for it.