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This needs to exist

2020-11-02T12:53:01Z

A search engine that will find the synthetic voice that most resembles the voice of whichever famous person you search for.

I'm pretty sure the book _Talk to Me: How Voice Computing Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Think_ has a chapter about constructing a synthetic version of a real person's voice, but I haven't gotten to that part yet.

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Webinar on using Voice Dream Reader with Bookshare

2020-05-19T13:17:34Z

This is taking place in Zoom on Thursday.
More info here
https://benetech.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wr-PZGgXQu-tDQLF-PghPw

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A guide to ChromeBook accessibility features

2019-06-10T18:35:36Z

Via the HowToGeek newsletter
https://www.howtogeek.com/415909/a-guide-to-your-chromebooks-accessibility-features/

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Benefits of using text-to-speech versus human voice narration

2019-06-06T16:05:44Z

Yes, we are still fighting the fight against stereotypes that say readers who use TTS are less literate and less capable of absorbing and interpreting information than their peers who are not using such technology, so here are some more actual facts
http://blog.bookshare.org/2019/05/reframing-text-to-speech-vs-human-audio-debate/

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World's first genderles virtual assistant voice

2019-03-18T18:30:45Z

https://thenextweb.com/tech/2019/03/18/worlds-first-genderless-voice-challenging-gender-stereotypes/

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Misheard word of the day

2012-07-09T19:03:57Z

I like to check out the quotes Alexx's e-mails have in their sig files, and this si the one which I just misheard:

Original quote: "CJE's LitCrit Rule of Thumb #12: Any story that needs a diagram to explain it needs a decent editor far more."

What I heard: "CJE's LitCrit Rule of Thumb #12: Any story that needs a diaphragm to
explain it needs a decent editor far more."
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Wizard duel between two speech synthesizers

2010-10-14T12:18:29Z

Kes: Okay, total TTS geekery here, but you know how I love those homicidal synthetic voices, especially when they have accents. Still, I would like to hear one of these software synths in a smackdown with an old-school DecTalk.
Harry Potter-style battle between the synthesizers used by JAWS and NVDA on YouTube.
http://goo.gl/nAOM

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