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Post number 9895

kramer_101 — Wed, 05 Sep 2001 05:48:17 -0800

At&T New Text to Speech thingy - HAL I'm coming.

By: semper

semper — Wed, 05 Sep 2001 06:06:40 -0800

he he, now i dont have to read my emails

By: samsara

samsara — Wed, 05 Sep 2001 06:24:41 -0800

Hmm. I was thinking prank phone calls. The quality is much nicer than anything I've heard yet, the word flow is more natural and voice tone more accurate. I see Hawking switching over (the real one that is).

By: pardonyou?

pardonyou? — Wed, 05 Sep 2001 06:35:05 -0800

Wow, cool. Forget the future implications, you can have lots of fun with the free demo. Word.

By: Optamystic

Optamystic — Wed, 05 Sep 2001 07:10:45 -0800

Wow. Having just watched Austin Powers 2, I can definitively state that this thing delivers lines much more naturally and believably than Heather Graham. 'Course, it's still a long way from sounding like an actual human, but it's a start....

By: rex

rex — Wed, 05 Sep 2001 08:06:21 -0800

And that's not all. The NWS just threw $600,000 to reinvent their text-to-speech technology. Check out the new voices.

By: jgooden

jgooden — Wed, 05 Sep 2001 08:59:55 -0800

That's actually about 3-4 years old.

By: pardonyou?

pardonyou? — Wed, 05 Sep 2001 09:08:45 -0800

Who cares how old it is? I'm having way too much fun with this!

By: stew560

stew560 — Wed, 05 Sep 2001 09:09:56 -0800

I was going to post this about a month ago but I found a previous reference to this in its infancy by crackheadmatt here. We did however use this service for evil of course, and left a few prank voice mails with it.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Wed, 05 Sep 2001 09:25:04 -0800

pardonyou: thanks for all the links, but Yahoo requires local referrers.

By: Skot

Skot — Wed, 05 Sep 2001 09:35:30 -0800

Bell Labs can make you sound like a gnat or a coffee drinker, but evidently not both.

By: pardonyou?

pardonyou? — Wed, 05 Sep 2001 09:39:01 -0800

Oops! My bad. Sorry about that -- they were pretty funny, too (at least to me). Well, they're all in my briefcase if anyone still wants to check: http://briefcase.yahoo.com/jmpeterson70.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Wed, 05 Sep 2001 11:29:12 -0800

The sugarhill gang might be out of business when they hear this rendition of Rapper's Delight.

By: juv3nal

juv3nal — Wed, 05 Sep 2001 18:00:59 -0800

that 'text to voice demo' wave file rocks

By: Hildago

Hildago — Wed, 05 Sep 2001 18:42:07 -0800

To AT&T, I find the results of your experiment mixed at best. While your attempt to write a program which accurate imitates the award-winning speech patterns of actor Christopher Walken was spot-on, your attempt to mimic the sound of his voice was awful. Back to the drawing board!