Teaching Computers to Sing the Words of God
March 27, 2022 7:37 AM Subscribe
TropeTrainer is software meant to assist Jewish children learn how to sing the Torah, in preparation for their bar/bat mitzvahs. Created in the early days of the Internet, they could not use sound recordings stored in the Cloud, but heavily modified DECtalk (cat for scale) to chant Hebrew. Over the course of its development, it would eventually contain the style and sounds nearly thirty different traditions. It contained a reference for a variety of Jewish tradition.
With recent OS updates, it stopped working. Congregations kept an old computer running, just to support the software. When would it be updated?
It turns out, instead of a team of developers, TropeTrainer was created by one man, Thomas Buchler. Mr. Buchler passed away, and the source code cannot be found.
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