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May10

TheLocust.org Radio and Lucent?

Speech synthesis has always been something I had an interest in, ever since I got my first SoundBlaster (an 8 bit card), with Dr. Sbaitso, a really bad speech synth program. So! I went off to look for some today, and i re-discovered Bell Lab’s Speech Synthesis Web demo. Damn. This thing is pretty good. Especially when compared to the others you find on the web.

“So what?” you say. Well, I’m thinking about setting up RealServer here, and playing Mp3s or whatever from my machine, and I wanted some station breaks, and possibly dynamic stuff (maybe even breaking news), so i thought “How would i automate that? SPEECH SYNTH i thought”. So, that something that might be coming up. I think it would be neat. Every fifteen minutes, a new story or something. Cool. Anyway, here are two audio clips I made with the demo of the Bell Synth: Website Ad and Radio Blurb

Update 5/11/00: Open this address in WinAmp to hear the glory of theLocust Auto Radio (limit content as yet, more later) https://thelocust.org:8000

filed under General and then tagged as Funny
May 10 2000 ~ 2:00 pm ~ Comments (3) ~

3 Comments

I am all about some hot grits!
Oh, i’m going to say something derogatory about Ben and put it in double-quotes. If you want to read it, bug him and make him fix the double-quote problem. Here goes:

Comment by Kevin — May 10, 2000 @ 10:51 am
Sorry, Kevin. You see, the problem with the quotes is that anything AFTER them never even gets put into the database to begin with. But, enough about the damned quote problem, what do you think about the streaming idea? I just found a site for Linux speech-synth, and streaming stuff, too. It’s pretty neat. In fact, they have something called “Slashes”, its a text reader for Slashdot headlines.

Comment by ben — May 10, 2000 @ 11:27 am
Jesus, that’s creepy. Really cool– but creepy.

Comment by Hunter — May 10, 2000 @ 7:47 pm

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