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[baronessekat]

I've been listening to a free recording of Frankenstein today.

It's a text to voice project and the speaker I think is actually a computer (mostly because of a very tinning echoing that I hear from the speaker). Which isn't too bad. However there are some things that a computer does that a human reader would not do.

When a character was named M. Wagner, the computer would pause at the period after the M as if a sentence end. So you get spoken sentences like "I went to M. [pause] Wagner to discuss..."

Also, the pronouncing of the word "misery" as "Missouri" has me at times giggling as when you get sentences like "Misery has visited our home this night" and you hear "Missouri has visited our home this night" there is just no way to not find it amusing.

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[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

"Missouri has visited our home this night"

And now all our furniture and belongings are sopping wet and covered in mud...

[dicea.livejournal.com]

Speaking computers can be a lot of fun to work with. One of Dickie's early DynaVoxes was particularly persnickety. We would have to use highly creative spelling and punctuation to get the machine to produce something that sounded like what we wanted it to say.

I need to remember, when we go home next, to hack it and add the phrase "Boom-dee-atta" to the Dyna.