what cd is the mc hawking hits? I wouldn' mind buying that or something or
getting that etc
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From: "Orin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
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Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 6:18 PM
Subject: Re: Synthesized Speech Songs
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
