Comments on: Language Removal Services

Language Removal Services

mert — Mon, 22 Sep 2003 11:15:16 -0800

Language Removal Services is a service that electronically removes that which is uneccessary in human speech. The laboratory has come to the aid of California voters by processing recorded speech samples of the candidates in order to "better understand their true positions."

By: WolfDaddy

WolfDaddy — Mon, 22 Sep 2003 11:37:08 -0800

This is hilarious: Arianna sounds like she's a porn actress, and Bustamante sounds like he's got lung problems. Good thing Madeline Albright isn't here ... that lady had a 10:1 "uh" to real-word ratio.

By: monju_bosatsu

monju_bosatsu — Mon, 22 Sep 2003 11:37:57 -0800

Arnold stuttering about halfway though is priceless.

By: starvingartist

starvingartist — Mon, 22 Sep 2003 11:40:39 -0800

Could someone explain to those of us without sound at work, what the hell this is? The website does quite a poor job explaining.

By: ZenMasterThis

ZenMasterThis — Mon, 22 Sep 2003 11:43:26 -0800

" ... "

By: ZenMasterThis

ZenMasterThis — Mon, 22 Sep 2003 11:44:24 -0800

Oh, and ... "LanguageFilter."

By: quonsar

quonsar — Mon, 22 Sep 2003 11:46:37 -0800

the inner labial images were moderately interesting, but i couldn't make hide nor hair of the text, which is nowhere near as inventive as, say, timecube.

By: shoepal

shoepal — Mon, 22 Sep 2003 11:46:52 -0800

the space between phonemes.

By: arielmeadow

arielmeadow — Mon, 22 Sep 2003 11:51:22 -0800

Um, can I get a "NSFW, Amen" on that one? Christ.

By: internal

internal — Mon, 22 Sep 2003 12:12:16 -0800

uh... um...

By: m@

m@ — Mon, 22 Sep 2003 12:16:10 -0800

Unfair! Unfair! Ubberoth got a Yeah included in his, while others only got Umms and Uhs

By: Dome-O-Rama

Dome-O-Rama — Mon, 22 Sep 2003 12:23:56 -0800

huffington's was almost musical.. she also had NO uhhs, or uhms...

By: atholbrose

atholbrose — Mon, 22 Sep 2003 12:24:48 -0800

How are pictures of vocal cords not safe for work?

By: Dome-O-Rama

Dome-O-Rama — Mon, 22 Sep 2003 12:27:09 -0800

DUDE! Did arnold just say "Paul is dead?" Yeah I don't get how this is a NSFW page...

By: Busithoth

Busithoth — Mon, 22 Sep 2003 12:27:59 -0800

I swear I can hear music, as if some of these samples are being played on a synthesizer. Starvingartist, it does do a piss-poor job at description, I agree. Basically it's the intake of breath and gutteral noises people make between words, spliced together.

By: Etaoin Shrdlu

Etaoin Shrdlu — Mon, 22 Sep 2003 12:28:27 -0800

NSFW? Why, because of the pictures of the vocal folds?

By: quonsar

quonsar — Mon, 22 Sep 2003 12:36:08 -0800

How are pictures of vocal cords not safe for work? such naivete is refreshing.

By: arielmeadow

arielmeadow — Mon, 22 Sep 2003 12:38:49 -0800

Oh. My cubicle paranoia got the better of me -- I clicked the link, saw drippy pink flesh, and assumed the worst. *slinks off to go look at porn consisting of adam's apples and backs of knees.*

By: samelborp

samelborp — Mon, 22 Sep 2003 12:52:40 -0800

A better idea would be to cut all the fillings that politicians use to mask what they actually think... or better, just do a bit of cut and paste like the Bush wacked union speech...

By: shoepal

shoepal — Mon, 22 Sep 2003 13:19:49 -0800

arielmeadow, I thought you meant NSFW due to the hot-n-heavy breathing of Arianna's clip, which could be misconstrued as it emanates from your workstation speakers.

By: arielmeadow

arielmeadow — Mon, 22 Sep 2003 13:51:50 -0800

Yes, shoepal, I like your interpretation better. Makes me sound like less of a dumbass.

By: Shoeburyness

Shoeburyness — Mon, 22 Sep 2003 13:57:52 -0800

It seems to me like some kind of weird hoax by a bored grad student or something... are they actually serious?

By: rusty

rusty — Mon, 22 Sep 2003 14:04:53 -0800

Huh. Eh ... uh ... ... ... Meh.

By: macrone

macrone — Mon, 22 Sep 2003 14:28:30 -0800

No, they're not actually serious. The obscurity is part of the dada joke. See, for example, their history of language removal page.

By: mert

mert — Mon, 22 Sep 2003 14:31:30 -0800

I think the mp3's of the "ecstatic opera" are actually quite beautiful.

By: aeschenkarnos

aeschenkarnos — Mon, 22 Sep 2003 18:20:14 -0800

Interesting how the different voices are still identifiable, even with no words.

By: inpHilltr8r

inpHilltr8r — Mon, 22 Sep 2003 20:17:03 -0800

Ahh, I think I first head this on Anal Magic with Kenny G, or possibly Advanced D&D with Donna Summer... wow, wfmu plays him a lot.

By: mcsweetie

mcsweetie — Mon, 22 Sep 2003 20:47:39 -0800

ok. these mp3s are HILARIOUS.

By: skallas

skallas — Tue, 23 Sep 2003 00:00:09 -0800

This is the audio eqivalant of dogs playing poker. They all sound like they're panting after a hard run. I do love the arnold mp3, its not that much different than him speaking in real life.