Fpeek Like A Computar

So much more than monotone speech. Also freak out your victim by violating vere perfanol fpace, while staring fixedly ahead!




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[audiotrax2000]

That is REALLY funny! You know I thought I was the only one who did this. Sometimes when I'm alone I do the "computer" voice just to entertain myself............is that worrying? ;)

[wbeaty]

@audiotrax2000 The French performance artist Alfred Jarry invented monotone robotic speech back around 1897. He decided to speak it entirely from then on. Then he did so. For years.

Jarry is also regarded as the inventor of "performance art," meaning the obscure twisted type which is designed to mess with the 'Normals.' Recently I heard that Picasso had a pistol only because Jarry gave him one of his. Jarry also invented 'pataphysics, leading to odd art & eventually to modern Pop Culture

[audiotrax2000]

@wbeaty: How would anyone know what a "robot" would talk like in 1897? PS> I can do the computer voice better than you. I even do the speed and pitch slow down at the end of Hals version of Daisy. Occasionally I amuse myself with a rendition of it in front of the bathroom mirror. ;)

[wbeaty]

> How would anyone know what a "robot" would talk like in 1897?

@audiotrax2000 Perhaps the robots were copying Jarry. Once a meme is in pop culture, it appears in odd places. But also, artists learn things to which we normals have no access. It's all that Absinthe (which Jarry apparently pronounced "Ab. Sin. Thee."

[wbeaty]

I start to sound like

"Perfect Paul" from DecTalk

Digital Equipment Corporation

or perhaps the chipset from

Texas Instruments Speak-And-Spell

Oooo

[LRCProductionsUS]

doesn't that camera have a "wide" or "letterbox" setting?

[wbeaty]

Nope. It's not a video cam, it's a POS that happens to have mpeg

[piperfect]

I have heard a few Indian teleservice representatives that have it down. It is hard to keep a strait face when they have Microsoft Sam mixed into their accent.

[willisz]

So underffftandable

[ernanimartins]

Have you tried the recently deployed SIRI on the iOS platform? I'd really like to see your concerns about it....

[lilbrudder32]

I used to use S.A.M. software on my Apple II in the 80's, it's text/speech conversion was brutal. But if you learned its particular version of phoneme mark-up, you could get fairly decent results. Another favorite was "Dr. Sbaitso", a version of the old Eliza program that shipped with the original Creative Labs SoundBlaster cards. It said very silly things sometimes. But, you mentioned TI's Speak-n-Spell. "Apostrophe" always came out "Annoskagee".

[MagWrath]

if you use the numbers, you can make remix this video. Start with your tempo hit 9 in time then move onto 4 etc. HAVE FUN GUYS!!

[nazaxprime]

Using narrator semi-regularly and doing all the speech recognition tutorials to really understand the logic involved and the way computer software recognizes sounds to activate commands helps a lot. Play with that for a month or so and you wont have to bother sounding like one, because you will learn its language. It is quite particular. After a good amount of training you can use your PC w/o the monitor and KB. I highly suggest it actually, then play with macros, text reader and voice to text.

[ehainer]

Found your website via StumbleUpon. I'm hooked. Love this stuff!

[SecondsFromFame]

I love you so much. This is great. You are great. My mind is just exploding.