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I think that this submission does not belong to the HN. It carries little educational value and I wouldn't call it deeply interesting (as described in ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html ). There isn't any effort to explain the beatbox effect. Also there are many voice synthesizers, google's is just the easiest accessible one. This is why the link seems to me just like a funny picture of a cat and I am deeply alarmed. (…
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Fat zk e, Blit zk rieg, Hu pv erbot.
Apart from Fatzke, you are cheating. And even in Fatzke, it's not in one syllable.
On a related note, try running this on a Mac: say -v cello d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d
There used to be these commands in the pre OS-X TTS system that let you specify arbitrary pitch/timing for the synth. People could make songs with it.
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Apart from Fatzke, you are cheating. And even in Fatzke, it's not in one syllable.
Okay, compound nouns are probably not what you had in mind when you made your statement. But then again, your statement was pretty general. Regarding Fatzke: "zk" is not in one syllable either. At least not when I (or google) pronounce it. :)
Yes, that's what I was trying to say. But since it's not compound, it's not as bad.
By the way, if you want a genuine example of strange sounds in German look at Herbst or Pfründe.
Fun fact: If you can pronounce Streichholzschächtelchen, you automatically gain German citizenship.
I think that this submission does not belong to the HN. It carries little educational value and I wouldn't call it deeply interesting (as described in ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html ). There isn't any effort to explain the beatbox effect. Also there are many voice synthesizers, google's is just the easiest accessible one. This is why the link seems to me just like a funny picture of a cat and I am deeply alarmed. (…
The defining characteristic of hacker culture is the awe of beautiful code. When the unforeseen side effects from feeding a program with edge case input are as deeply gratifying as these, it instills a sense of beauty and awe of the underlying code. As is shown by the number of upvotes, people don't come to HN to educate themselves. They come here to be awed. Education is a side effect.
Not for me. I find the defining characteristic of hacker culture to be the inventive re-purposing of things.
Google Beatbox is exemplary of this.
In case anyone from Google Translate reads this: your URLs are highly resistant to shortening services. Both is.gd and safe.mn mangled it, I think it's the pipe characters. Thankfully bit.ly works...
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Okay, compound nouns are probably not what you had in mind when you made your statement. But then again, your statement was pretty general. Regarding Fatzke: "zk" is not in one syllable either. At least not when I (or google) pronounce it. :)
> Regarding Fatzke: "zk" is not in one syllable either. Yes, that's what I was trying to say. But since it's not compound, it's not as bad. By the way, if you want a genuine example of strange sounds in German look at Herbst or Pfründe. Fun fact: If you can pronounce Streichholzschächtelchen, you automatically gain German citizenship.
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Radiohead used the Mac voice a bit on their 'OK Computer' album. Obviously on 'Fitter Happier' and in the background on 'Paranoid Android'.
Also, I believe Pixar used the Mac voice for the ship's navigation computer in WALL-E
According to Wikipedia:
The song "Man That You Fear" by Marilyn Manson ends with the MacInTalk voices repeating, "When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed". Also, during live performances of "Antichrist Superstar", the MacInTalk voices repeat "You might as well kill yourself - you're already dead" at the end of the song.
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So, I went ahead and made a drum machine out of your notes using a bit of JavaScript... https://gist.github.com/721253 Load it as a bookmarklet using this: javascript:(function(){document.body.appendChild(document.createElement("script")).src = " https://gist.github.com/raw/721253/f70c2bdeaed54d9907a448504... EDIT: the bookmarklet is getting cut off by HN, see the first comment on the gist linked above. Unfortunately…
I've created a new version of your great script, now it uses the javascript Audio() class. https://gist.github.com/721554 This is the bookmarklet: javascript:(function(){document.body.appendChild(document.createElement("script")).src=" http://bit.ly/googlebeat})()
I made the bookmarklet in my firefox toolbar with the javascript code.
I open google translate, click the bookmarklet...nothing happens.
My roomate thinks it's an error with the bit.ly redirect
Any suggestions? I want it SO BAD
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I've created a new version of your great script, now it uses the javascript Audio() class. https://gist.github.com/721554 This is the bookmarklet: javascript:(function(){document.body.appendChild(document.createElement("script")).src=" http://bit.ly/googlebeat})()
So desperate to get this to work...but no avail! I made the bookmarklet in my firefox toolbar with the javascript code. I open google translate, click the bookmarklet...nothing happens. My roomate thinks it's an error with the bit.ly redirect Any suggestions? I want it SO BAD
0. Use fix close quote on bit.ly redirect if you are using the parent comment...
javascript:(function(){document.body.appendChild(document.createElement("script")).src="http://bit.ly/googlebeat"})()
2. Load the bookmarklet.
3. Click the new buttons at the bottom of the page.
See the howto from the gist: https://gist.github.com/721554#file_how_to.txt