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
