Comments on: Not Working

By: 32-P

32-P — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:47:44 +0000

But it couldn’t say anything we could type!

So many false promises… so many broken dreams…

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:54:26 +0000

And who could forget “Hello ot there. Eyy can say anything that yuuu can type”?

By: 32-P

32-P — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:10:08 +0000

“Hellll-oooooo!

Helll-ooooo…. hell-ooooo… hell…o.”

“What was the point of that?”
“I don’t know. I guess to impress us with the fact that it can sing.”
“…That wasn’t very impressive.”

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:50:22 +0000

While I don’t remember this at all, that definitely sounds like me. Particularly the determination to perfect minor details for very little payoff.

It also reminds me of a phone call I received once from a speech synthesis program from you and Mirko sometime in the mid 90s. It started off with “Hello, this is Jean-Luc Picard.” I don’t remember the rest, but since I was at the computer, I replied with text-to-speech as well.

Ah, fun times. “We arr glaad to meeeeet you, ooweee arr gled to meeet you. Heeeelllooooo!”