hi there;
could you get me the jaws rap? that would be intrusting to here.
thanks
mike
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the blind and all at
http://www.audioficks.net/brinasmikey
or my personal blog at
http://www.gwfans.net
And do have your self a grait day!
thanks
Michael
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Justin Harford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
the blind" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Lindsay Yazzolino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Rick Hamond"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Arlene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 3:51 PM
Subject: Synthesized Speech Songs
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
