Friday weirdness: a Twitter API / Google TTS mashup

Years ago I worked with Dragon NaturallySpeaking and ever since have had a fondness for speech recognition and text-to-speech technologies. When I discovered that Google had a little trick you could use to perform text-to-speech on blocks of text up to 100 characters I started wondering what I could do with it.

Then it hit me... Tweets.

I quickly put together a cohost for a web show who would just blurt out stuff about a topic, more or less at random, to which I would try to respond. Is it funny? Marginally. But I really think with some tweaking of both the host and the technology it could be pretty watchable.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• tts
• google
• api
• twitter
• flash
• adobe
• air
• playbook

[moyado]

hahaha I whats thinking the same idea and found this :)

[EgoAnt]

@moyado It was actually a pretty fun experiment.

[CliffordWaye]

@MsIleaneSpeaks Hahaha, actually it seems a lot like YOUR hair style.

[MsIleaneSpeaks]

I like her hair style :)