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Has anyone noticed that youtube comments now have an "audio preview" button
next to them that will read your comment out loud before you post it?
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!
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On Wed, 27 May 2009 19:08:16 -0700, Darren New wrote:
> Has anyone noticed that youtube comments now have an "audio preview"
> button next to them that will read your comment out loud before you post
> it?
Yep, that was added several months ago. :-)
Jim
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>> Has anyone noticed that youtube comments now have an "audio preview"
>> button next to them that will read your comment out loud before you post
>> it?
>
> Yep, that was added several months ago. :-)
...is this like the one where somebody says "did you know they've taken
'gulible' out of the dictionary?"?
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On Thu, 28 May 2009 09:22:09 +0100, Invisible wrote:
>>> Has anyone noticed that youtube comments now have an "audio preview"
>>> button next to them that will read your comment out loud before you
>>> post it?
>>
>> Yep, that was added several months ago. :-)
>
> ...is this like the one where somebody says "did you know they've taken
> 'gulible' out of the dictionary?"?
No, this one is actually in place. You have to sign in, but I tried it,
the text-to-speech wasn't half bad. :-)
Jim
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>>>> Has anyone noticed that youtube comments now have an "audio preview"
>>>> button next to them that will read your comment out loud before you
>>>> post it?
>>> Yep, that was added several months ago. :-)
>> ...is this like the one where somebody says "did you know they've taken
>> 'gulible' out of the dictionary?"?
>
> No, this one is actually in place. You have to sign in, but I tried it,
> the text-to-speech wasn't half bad. :-)
1. Hmm, OK. So the PC finally has text-to-speach capabilities, a
facility that the Amiga had 15 years ago. Interesting.
2. OMG, *why* did they implement this in YouTube? That's just silly!
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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
> 1. Hmm, OK. So the PC finally has text-to-speach capabilities, a
> facility that the Amiga had 15 years ago. Interesting.
You can't be seriously claiming that you have never heard of any
text-to-speech software for the PC before this.
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On Thu, 28 May 2009 18:08:10 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>>>> Has anyone noticed that youtube comments now have an "audio preview"
>>>>> button next to them that will read your comment out loud before you
>>>>> post it?
>>>> Yep, that was added several months ago. :-)
>>> ...is this like the one where somebody says "did you know they've
>>> taken 'gulible' out of the dictionary?"?
>>
>> No, this one is actually in place. You have to sign in, but I tried
>> it, the text-to-speech wasn't half bad. :-)
>
> 1. Hmm, OK. So the PC finally has text-to-speach capabilities, a
> facility that the Amiga had 15 years ago. Interesting.
PCs have had TTS capabilities for a long time. I'm talking about the TTS
that YouTube uses.
> 2. OMG, *why* did they implement this in YouTube? That's just silly!
Ostensibly the reason that was put forth in the XKCD cartoon about it -
that it would let people know how stupid their comments sounded before
they posted them.
Jim
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> 1. Hmm, OK. So the PC finally has text-to-speach capabilities, a
> facility that the Amiga had 15 years ago. Interesting.
never heard of Dr Sbaitso?
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> 1. Hmm, OK. So the PC finally has text-to-speach capabilities, a
> facility that the Amiga had 15 years ago. Interesting.
Actually, microsoft has had text to speech for a long time built in to their
assistive technologies. That is to say, Windows came with a screen reader a
long time ago.
"This is aMEEga speeeeking."
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Invisible wrote:
>>> Has anyone noticed that youtube comments now have an "audio preview"
>>> button next to them that will read your comment out loud before you post
>>> it?
>>
>> Yep, that was added several months ago. :-)
>
> ...is this like the one where somebody says "did you know they've taken
> 'gulible' out of the dictionary?"?
http://blag.xkcd.com/2008/10/08/youtube-audio-preview/
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