now, that takes the cake. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Blouch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Cc: "Lindsay Yazzolino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Rick Hamond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Arlene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 11:32 AM Subject: Re: Synthesized Speech Songs
Somebody sent me this one a few years ago. Just silly. http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/KG/cake_covers/Vicki_Musical-Cake-Song.mp3 http://beemp3.com/download.php?file=233651&song=Vicki+Musical-Cake-Song At least I think it's Vicki and not somebody playing around with an Eventide ultra harmonizer. * *CB 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 > >
