MC Hawking in da ho-use!
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MC Hawking in da ho-use! Damn straight! You don't know Da Good Doctor till you get his phat beats in your ass. Or something. Check out the MP3s, yo, and move while you groove to the discography, news and pictures. Wicked science by day, masta gansta rapper by night. Byatch.
the mac os has decent text to speech (and voice recognition) functionality built in, that's what i think was used to make the rather wack hawking tunes
which incidentally, owe a lot to these guys (check out 'Straight Outta CompUSA')
posted by sawks at 8:26 AM on September 9, 2000
which incidentally, owe a lot to these guys (check out 'Straight Outta CompUSA')
posted by sawks at 8:26 AM on September 9, 2000
>the mac os has decent text to speech
I just tried it out on the Mac at work....the "Fred" voice is right on.
posted by jkottke at 10:02 AM on September 9, 2000
I just tried it out on the Mac at work....the "Fred" voice is right on.
posted by jkottke at 10:02 AM on September 9, 2000
Yeah, that sounds like Fred to me (in the Hawking songs) to me. The only good Window's freeware text to speech program I know of is DECTalk, downloadable at http://www.ultranet.com/~rongemma/indext.htm. The voices aren't as great, but it's a pretty flexible program, with its own rudimentary markup language for making steady tones, inserting wav files, and speedig up or slowing down the output.
posted by kidsplateusa at 10:12 AM on September 9, 2000
posted by kidsplateusa at 10:12 AM on September 9, 2000
They ported DECTalk and released it?
That used to be The Best Synthesizer On The Planet. The hardware was $4000...
posted by baylink at 12:29 PM on September 9, 2000
That used to be The Best Synthesizer On The Planet. The hardware was $4000...
posted by baylink at 12:29 PM on September 9, 2000
Yo! I'm glad you guys like the site. Tell everyone you know and keep checking back, I'm gonna try to update the site every Thursday.
FYI, I used WillowTalk to create the voice of MC Hawking (a custom voice based on "Paul"), although a Mac in my office at work was the catalyst that launched the whole sordid mess.
posted by mchawking at 7:36 PM on September 9, 2000
FYI, I used WillowTalk to create the voice of MC Hawking (a custom voice based on "Paul"), although a Mac in my office at work was the catalyst that launched the whole sordid mess.
posted by mchawking at 7:36 PM on September 9, 2000
Holy shit. I believe that mchawking now owes me a new pair of pants.
posted by milnak at 3:12 PM on September 10, 2000
posted by milnak at 3:12 PM on September 10, 2000
there is a net.artist from moscow who let's his computer sing classic rock hits for quite a while now. he's using a soundblaster 16, textassist 1.x and midi files from the net. check it out at www.easylife.org/386dx/
there were quite a few dancefloor hits lately which used text-to-speech synths. like cylob of rephlex rec. london or mr. atom heart, with pop artificielle on rather interesting rec.
posted by klubradio at 7:42 AM on September 12, 2000
there were quite a few dancefloor hits lately which used text-to-speech synths. like cylob of rephlex rec. london or mr. atom heart, with pop artificielle on rather interesting rec.
posted by klubradio at 7:42 AM on September 12, 2000
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posted by jkottke at 7:44 AM on September 9, 2000