Text to Speech Fun: Who's On First

Seems like with all of the issues with the Kindle and the new IPod being equipped with text to speech, there's much more awareness of text to speech engines. I keep seeing different remixes using the technology like the one below. It's Abbot and Costello's "Who's On First" performed by/in synthesized speech using different voices.

Photo courtesy of Matt McGee

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Freud Fun

I always enjoy a bit of psychoanalytic humor, and Archie's has it all. One of my favorites pictured here is the Dr. Freud's Therapy Ball

"Dr. Freud's Therapy Ball responds to your heartfelt confessions with the stony objectivity of Dr. Freud himself. Just shake this 3-3/4" black plastic ball and turn it over for one of twenty different responses such as "How did that make you feel?" and "Talk about your mother."

Of course if that's not your need, then how about a Freud Lolipop or Bobble Head.

File under "Unsolicited Plugs for things I like"

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Fascinating auditory illusion

Fascinating auditory illusion (via, Boingboing). BB cites wikipedia "A Shepard tone, named after Roger Shepard, is a sound consisting of a superposition of sine waves separated by octaves. When played with the base pitch of the tone moving upwards or downwards, it is referred to as the Shepard scale. This creates the auditory illusion of a tone that continually ascends or descends in pitch, yet which ultimately seems to get no higher or lower."
Enjoy,




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