cheers for chomsky?
$24.00 seems a pretty steep price to pay for some Chomsky-alike when you can use the chomskybot for free.
turing the gutter
Gizmodo already plugged moanmyip.com but it’s worth mentioning that there probably really is a (commercial) research avenue here for convincing sexually-provocative speech synthesis. Maybe if the actual project I’m working on right now doesn’t pan out I’ll submit a research proposal for a project to build titillating interactive dialogue systems. ;) I mean, these guys didn’t even take the time to record multiple versions of each numeral for concatenation when numerals repeat.
Who knows, it could be the killer app for speech? Broader societal impact: providing pornographic content without exploiting any actual people (other than the customers).
Of course, the first corollary of rule 34 suggests that such technology already exists and is deployed somewhere on the Internet.
Bear English Vernacular
The Internet (yes, it’s capitalized, the atechnical pseudo-nerds over at Wired can bite me) has turned up the following amazing image:
This would be a more endearing compliment if the bear were to employ the continuative ‘be’ — implying that the recipient was habitually fine. Still, though, even an ephemeral admission of fineness, when printed on a silk-look pillow and delivered by a wide-eyed stuffed toy, must turn the young ladies’ disinterest to passion.
I started writing a long post analyzing the humorous impact of this low-quality stuffed bear (the sort one might win at a carnival or boardwalk) controlling this gruff, urban vernacular but, really, the bear speak for hisself.
rstln e
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