List all the places you've heard Apple's text-to-speech voices

[motulist]

Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Radiohead - (I forget which album it's on - ok computer?)
Wonder Showzen tv show - Q & A segment

 

[grapes911]

How can you tell the difference from Apple's text-to-speach and any other computer/machine talking? So many of them sound the same.

 

[motulist]

I could be wrong, but it seems to me that out of all the synthesized voices I've heard, they are almost always different enough from one another to be distinguishable as different voices.

 

[Shamus]

How can you tell the difference from Apple's text-to-speach and any other computer/machine talking? So many of them sound the same.

Very true. I saw Stephen Hawking on TV the other day, and his computer sounds very much like the Apple text-to-speech in OS X, but I'm pretty sure he uses Windows.

 

[SamIchi]

Wow, someone made a topic about this? It's a freakin computer voice. It can be done on any computer.

What a more interesting topic would be is what loops have you heard from Garageband, that are used in media music. I've heard them a few times.

 

[bartelby]

Man... Or AstroMan? - In One Universe There Are Millions.

I think that's what it's called anyway.
They use TalkBackToBasics and the Mac "sings" the whole song.
It's a fantastic tune. So is their track "Simple Text File" in which the only instrument is a dot matrix printer.

 

[iMeowbot]

Very true. I saw Stephen Hawking on TV the other day, and his computer sounds very much like the Apple text-to-speech in OS X, but I'm pretty sure he uses Windows.

Yeah, he uses a DECtalk voice.

 

[.:*Robot Boy*:.]

Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

If you're referring to the voice that repeats the phrase "Yankee. Hotel. Foxtrot" at the end of Poor Places, that's actually a sample from the Conet Project.

There's more information on the Conet Poject here.

 

[motulist]

... the Conet Project

Gee, ya learn something new everyday. Who knew?

 

[motulist]

I suppose it's the modern synthesized voices that are distinguishable from one another and the primitive ones are actually pretty similar.

 

[Blue Velvet]

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