Text-to-Speech App for Second Life
Posted Tuesday, September 5th, 2006, at 10:35 am Eastern by Mark Wallace
Christian Westbrook of the Electric Sheep Company (sponsors of this blog) has made what sounds like a cool text-to-speech translator that works within the virtual world of Second Life. Each participant in a converation chooses a voice and a language that they’d like their chat translated into, and the device speaks the translation in real time. Listen to a sample on Christian’s blog, linked above. I haven’t been able to rendezvous with Christian to check this out, so I’m not sure whether the voice component works behind SL or streams in-world, but it’s a nice idea. Who knows, perhaps soon you’ll be able to listen to 3pointD while you go about your virtual business.
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Visions of Gary Larsen’s “Far Side” dance through my head.
“Hey, Baby. Hey, Baby. Hey, Baby.”
neato
Played with it at the demo site that Christian mentions on his blog and it streams the voice translation in-world instantaneously. Pretty cool stuff.