(I'm sure I'm not the only person who's going to make that Radiohead connection.) Boing Boing links to a 1961 recording of synthesized speech, including Shakespeare and "A Bicycle Built for Two" (a recording that one Boing Boing reader notes was the origin of HAL's swan song in 2001); followups at the BB post link to other 1950s and 1960s uses of computers for synthesized speech. As Xeni says, "Remixers, start your engines."
[via Boing Boing]
Posted by johndanseven at April 28, 2006 01:10 AM