Hi Justin,
If you want, I can send you an entire CD album of MC Hawking hits.
He's able to make dectalk rap, and is the one who made the song "all
my shootings be drivebyes" which you may have seen on the dectalk
archive. But, I have the entire CD if you want it. Also, you might
want to check out Flint Millions vocalwriter speech page at http://speech.themillionweb.net
. The VocalWriter is for the Mac, but unfortunately at this time isn't
accessible with VoiceOver apparently. What I'm wondering is how is
Flint using it then?
Orin
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On Apr 6, 2008, at 6:51 PM, Justin Harford wrote:
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
