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Text to voice is old school - Let them sing it for you
There's no shortage of applications that will convert text into Stephen Hawking-esque speech. Rarely do the results sound human, or even good.Let them sing it for you takes a different approach. Instead of text to speech, the site converts text into music. Or rather, it finds each word you've typed into a box as a snippet from a song. Then it plays those snippets back to back. If you input a word that it doesn't know, you can enter a song in which that word appears and eventually someone will get around to programming your word. It's all done by hand, so don't expect instant results.
The end product doesn't really make for much more pleasant listening than the robotic voices on an automated tech support line. But somehow it's a lot funnier. Now, does anybody know a song that uses the words "download," and "squad?"
[via Neatorama]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
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The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Bill said 3:52PM on 8-14-2007
Weird Al's "Don't Download this Song" and, and, the theme to the Mod Squad?
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Alex M said 3:56PM on 8-14-2007
http://www.dontdownloadthissong.com/
and the credits music for http://imdb.com/title/tt0093560/
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mike said 4:08PM on 8-14-2007
for "squad" you can use ludacris' "money maker"
"you're the center of attention that's distractin' the squad"
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Tom said 10:40PM on 8-14-2007
I had seen this a while ago. I actually heard "you" was the sample from "you shook me all night long", so I assumed "i can paste the lyrics from that and every single word will work. wrong, "shook" was not in their dictionary. Neither was motor or quite a few others. I guess he's not adding every word from a song, so I requested all the words (and pasted the song) so that in the future, people can hear songs sung by a chorus of noises.
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danielgreenb said 7:41AM on 8-16-2007
Sounds so funny! I'm gonna make a song for my answering machine :)
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