-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of B.J. Sexton Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 4:35 PM To: California Association of Blind Students Mailing List Subject: [Cabs-talk] Fw: Synthesized Speech Songs
----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin Harford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bruce Sexton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Jason Halloway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 4:29 PM Subject: Synthesized Speech Songs > BJ and Jason. > > I wonder if you guys could help me pass this around. Email to reply is > [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hello all > > You may be wondering about the subject line. I'll try to make it quick. > > I recently got this idea to make a playlist of songs that use synthesized > speech. I know we have a lot of synthesized speech in the blind > community, songs that are made by blind people that essentially are all > with synthesized speech. I have the jaws rap, and the happy birthday/ > he's a jolly good fellow, which was done with the dectalk voices, which I > think I will put on this. There is the skit "whose on ffirst" that I > would like to put at the beginning and I hope that Josh won't mind this. > But there are also songs that just average artists make that include > synthesized speech. Right now I am listening to "keep talking" by pink > floyd which I think features the synthesized speech that Stephen Hawking > used to talk with. I think I have another techno mix that seems to use > the apple voices. I also have one about robots "f***ing" in the park > which features our darling victoria in the mac community. These are, to > the best of my knowledge, made by sighted people that sighted and blind > alike enjoy listening to once in a while. > > So when I have a playlist of songs like this, I would like to offer them > up in burned CDs for my lab class at Berkeley. I bet we all get a lot of > questions about the synthesized speech that we use that no one can > understand, but I suspect that lots don't really know how much they > themselves use synthesized speech. I just felt like this would be a > really cool form of outreach that would help me put myself out there, and > that would make us not seem so strange. Does this make any since. > > So this request is for any songs that include synthesized speech that any > of you may have. I would really much more prefer music that is just > mainstream stuff like the pink floyd, but some songs directly from the > blind community would be considered for inclusion as well. > > I'm so sorry this message has been so long, but I think you for reading > up to here, and I sure would be happy if you could help me out with this. > I would like to have the CD done up and ready as soon as possible as we > have midterms and finals and then the end of the term coming up in mid > may which means that there is not much time left. Again thanks for your > time, and please please please see if you could come up with anything. > > Regards > Justin Harford > > Into this wild abyss, the weary fiend stood on the brink of hell and > looked awhile, pondering his voyage > > John Milton > Paradise Lost > _______________________________________________ Cabs-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/cabs-talk No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.22.7/1361 - Release Date: 4/5/2008 7:53 AM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.22.7/1361 - Release Date: 4/5/2008 7:53 AM ___ Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a copy to the list as well. To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
