RSS does more than weblogs
Weblog RSS -
On Scripting News, Dave writes:
We could establish a profile of RSS 2.0 and implement strict compliance with that profile in the major blogging tools.
This has been followed by a discussion of the issues on Sam's weblog, with a lot of discussion over whether the core profile should be based on RSS 1.0, 2.0, or whether it's really necessary at all.
What we need is a profile of RSS specific to weblogs: "RSS for Weblogs".
RSS 1.0 and 2.0 are designed for extensibility, and can be used to represent non-weblog data. Currently they're really only being used for weblogs/news feeds, and Dave has said in the past that RSS is intended only as a news/syndication format. But the point of making RSS extensible is so that new features can easily be added, and new types of data can be represented.
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Dave Winer at 06:01PM on May 10, 2003 writes...
Whoa, I hope I never said that RSS 2.0 was only for weblogs. I don't believe it.
Look at the NY Times feeds. It's not a weblog (obviously), and it makes use of several important 2.0-only features.
Here's an example.
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I absolutely agree that the profile should be defined as RSS For Weblogs, and not RSS as a whole. RSS is being used for many things right now, despite original intentions, such as search engine queries, learning objects, weather information, GeoURL's near web pages, etc, etc.
Actually, I think I agree with everything else in this post.
dc:subject can't hold all the data that ENT can. Subject support is important, imho.
Another advantage of a weblog-specific RSS format will be to search engine crawlers, since it will serve as a good positive ID for weblogs. As Dave points out, many non-blog sites use RSS feeds and it can be a headache to disambiguate between blogs and other kinds of sites programatically.
I would suggest that the "language" attribute be capable of holding multiple values. I've noticed that there is a significant minority of bilingual bloggers, and we don't want to do anything to discourage them! A great example is Emmanuelle Ricard, who writes her posts in both French and English. Bloggers like should be able to indicate that they blog in multiple languages in their RSS feed.
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Ben Trott of Movable Type on RSS. [Scripting News]
So Dave and Ben have agreed, now let's see what Evan says.
And Ben seems to think that having Categories/Distributed Taxonomies is part of it. Michael Fagen thought that dc:subject doesn't hold as much as ENT, and now I await Matt or Paolo's opinion.
[Marc's Voice]
This will surely be welcomed by many. "a profile of RSS that weblog tools--tools that both produce and consume weblogs--must support". I'm glad the community is establishing clearly that RSS can be used for other structured content besides weblogs but at the same time establishing exactly what a weblog needs to support in it's open output interface (RSS for weblogs), in 2003.
Time to design and establish RSS around other blog related "micro-content". RSS for Blog Radio? RSS for AB Radio (Audio Blogging Radio)? etc.
Interesting, exciting times for RSS sensitive search engines and RSS news readers up ahead.
H.G.
1:32:02 PM 
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This is not a stupid idea at all.
The more I think about the idea the more cool ideas I think of doing with it (I can already see tags that let me pick different voices for each post (see in my mind that is) ).
Here are three quick thoughts I have:
1) I see this as another way to create an audioblog. Actually, a way of creating an audioblogging post that makes for easy editing.
2) Many of the present bloggers feel more confortable writing than speaking into a microphone (I say present because I believe there are many future audiobloggers that would prefer to speak over writing). If the audio output of the process you describe is exceptable, it becomes an efficient, productive way to produce audio from an already written post without having the blogger doing extra work. Plus they don't have to hear their own voice which some just can't get used to.
3) Possible method that would assist in enabling mobloggers and basebloggers that speak different languages into the blogging conversation.
I would say maybe the idea is just a little ahead of its time like audioblogging technology in general.
The day is not far off when mobloggers will need to part of the blogging conversation. I believe when moblogging two-way converations become real, audio produced with methods as you described will play a role.