Flipboard, the app that turns news into eye cy, has added audio support to its Android version.

Starting Thursday, the app’s users will be able to add to their news mix audio such as National blic Radio’s Fresh Air blic Radio International’s The rld.

In addition, the app can be connected to a SoundCloud account so sounds can be shared with others.

The audio feature will be added to versions of Flipboard for the Barnes & Noble Nook the Amazon Kindle “in a few days,” the Flipboard development team said in a blog.

Flipboard, which made a splashy debut for the id in 2010, finally made it to the Android ecosystem in ne. The Android app is integrated with ‘s social network, +, so activity in a user’s “circles” will appear in Flipboard’s magazine-style format. Users can also interact directly with + from within the app, allowing them to perform tasks such as +1 a posting (the + equivalent of a Facebook “like”) as well as share, comment or reply to postings.

Audio was introduced to Flipboard’s iOS apps in May. Adding audio to the app also makes it accessible to visually impaired users, developers noted in a blogat the time. By turning on the VoiceOver features in an iOS device, the gestures to control Flipboard change everything on pages is read aloud. So you could tap on a title on the page, for example, the title would be read aloud.

The id version of Flipboard was chosen as a noteworthy news apps of 2012 by the editors of rld this year.

The app is available from ay.