Encouraged by listeners, he has also released recordings of spoken poetry. Writing creatively in Taiwanese, Chen is often hamstrung by the gap between the written and spoken word. Taiwanese is a spoken regional dialect, but there is no actual written form.
另一位台語詩人陳明仁，近年來陸續在「全民電台」、「寶島新聲」等頻道念詩、談詩，也在聽眾的鼓舞下出版有聲詩。