July 7, 2008


Text to Speech from AT&T Labs

A cool little web application that converts 300 characters into a Widows media file.

For example: .

Update:: There are multiple voices!

posted by Andrew Simone in web sites 

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3 Responses to “Text to Speech from AT&T Labs”

  1. Matt on July 8th, 2008 at 9:48 pm

    This has been around what? 12 years?

  2. Mike D. on July 8th, 2008 at 10:27 pm

    I’ve fond memories of messing with a program called Dr. Sbaitso on my grandpa’s Windows 3.1 PC. The text-to-speech was clunkier than this, but the artificial intelligence blew my teenage mind. A request for a joke would get you a corny knock-knock, and it would reprimand you for bad language. Most everything else would prompt “I see, go on” or “Why do you feel [last five words of your previous comment]?” If it had charged me 75 bucks an hour, the illusion would have been complete.

  3. Andrew Simone on July 8th, 2008 at 11:43 pm

    I remember that too, Mike. Definitely a classic.

    Matt, I suppose it has been around awhile but, alas, it was not until recently that I discovered it. I can only hope another has benefited from my public expression of ignorance.

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