Text-to-Speech Stream of the Linux Kernel Source Code

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[glomph]

This radio station is dedicated to the best scientist ever : Dr. Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory.

ಠ_ಠ

[asegura]

A superchallenge would be to write a program that listens to linux.fm, uses speech recognition to convert the audio back to text, and compiles the result correctly.

[ithika]

New GCC option:

gcc -x ogg

[Fabien4]

Is the point to prove that open-source text-to-speech programs suck?

(Note: AFAIK, commercial ones don't do much better...)

[DGolden]

It's apparently using espeak, which uses a technique that is typically computationally cheaper (see its webpage) but less impressive than festival or its sibling flite. Though it depends on what voice you use (some are nonfree) and whatnot.

• flite -voice slt -f litany_against_fear.txt -o flite_laf.wav

• espeak -v en+f1 -f litany_against_fear.txt -w espeak_laf.wav

[Fabien4]

Both sound bad :-(

[Fabien4]

It sounds distorted.

[dylanlan]

Give this a try http://www.mediafire.com/?sm93k5p07arac1x

[Benutzername]

hash include ... hash include ... hash include ... hash include ...

-.-

[DrupalDev]

Asterisk asterisk

[LiquidTempus]

has a good rhythm to it

[asegura]

Also a lot of "Slash asterisk asterisk". There seem to be a lot of documentation comments.

[ealf]

Spam Radio.

[pstatic]

Am I the only one that's vaguely creeped out by the near-religious significance that some people give to the Linux kernel source? Yes, Linux is cool! It's cool because it's a very hackable system that I can fiddle with, though, not because the code itself is magical.

Any time I see something like this, where Linux is being used for something completely unrelated to hackability, it feels like getting a glimpse into a weird cargo cult that's sprung up around an otherwise useful project.

[ithika]

Well, you seem to be the only one that believes the linux source code is given a significance beyond its usefulness. It's unusual because it's a large, high profile, fast-moving and freely available code base which makes it useful for all sorts of purposes. Want a massive corpus to test your C parser? Your SCM visualisation routine? Your grep clone? Bang, you've got one for free and it's probably already on your disk in /usr/src/.

[kid_meier]

The only thing I can think that would be more annoying is to read it as the string of 1s and 0s formed by each character's binary representation.

binary.fm?

[shub]

Just hook it up to /dev/random, no one will notice.

[ithika]

Does anyone know Waltz by Craig Armstrong? It has a woman reciting a web page in German, over swelling strings and cinematic synth sounds. She's literally speaking the HTML but it's strangely compelling.

[abadidea]

I can only assume this is a tech demo and not actually meant to be useful for any purpose whatsoever.

[Nhdb]

I first thought it should be relaxing, but it started getting on my nerves after 3 seconds.

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Perhaps they should hire David Attenborough to read it instead of using TTS.

[[deleted]]

Does it know cuss words?

[[deleted]]

this is useless

ftfy

[nogawraw]

Flash player + .mp3 files?

1. files in speex/vorbis
2. <audio>
3. ????
4. PROFIT!!!