You craved a post from me and now you have it!

By Jason Venter · February 9, 2006

I generally try not to encourage such things, but in this case I had to give it a shot. If you visit my blog now, you'll hear a special greeting message. Too cool!

Comments 6

zigfried Feb 9, 2006

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Tomorrow, my spiffy blog will have Also Sprach Zarathustra as its greeting message.

//Zig

honestgamer Blogger Feb 9, 2006

I was thinking it might be cool to allow users to add a music player to their blogs. It would have to be set so that it only played if a visitor clicked, I think. I probably won't do it, but I'm still considering it.

jiggs Feb 10, 2006

is that your voice jason?

my blog already has an mp3 player. it would be neat if others had one too!

lasthero Feb 10, 2006

So...the truth is out.

Jason is a robot.

honestgamer Blogger Feb 10, 2006

Heh heh. It was some site AT&T Research is doing. You can type what you want the voice to say, then choose from a few available voices, and press a button. Then the voice reads. It actually does pretty good. You type the words in actual English, rather than having to make things up for the words to be pronounced reasonably close to properly. So no, that wasn't my voice.

lasthero Feb 10, 2006

Yeah, I know.

I found something similar on Hanes.com (yes, the underwear site) a while back. It would do the voice thing, and it would also let you manipulate a picture to make it look like it was talking. Cool stuff.