How To Kill A Joke With TTS
Posted by Simon Perry on 3 August 2007 at 8:00 am | Tagged as: Services, UK, BT
Text to Speech (TTS) processing has come on leaps and bounds from the early days of jerky, rough renditions of robotic-type chatter yesteryear.
A lot of the quality is truly amazing - very life like - but it appears that some systems still really doesn’t know how to deal with jokes.
Just now a friend (I assume) sent me an SMS joke, but sadly they misdirected it to my landline, not the mobile.
BT have a service in the UK where text messages can be sent to landlines and read out over the phone.
So you all have the joy of listening to the joke, I recorded it, just so you can enjoy the flat humour of it.
I found it took a couple of times of listening to it to actually understand what the joke was!
On this day, years gone by ...
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- iBlueTube Valve Amplifier For iPods - 2006
- PlusNet: 700Gb Of Mail Deleted: Sorry - 2006
- Apple Mighty Mouse Announced - 2005
- PDA Sales Set For Record Year - 2005
- Three Quarters of US Homes Have A Computer - 2005
- EasyShare P880, P850: Kodak Announcement - 2005
- BT's First Public Wireless Broadband Network - 2004
- South Korean company, Daum, Buys Lycos Inc. - 2004
