Comments on: Speak No Evil

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Jun 2003 06:48:23 +0000

It's not working for me. I can't even download it to my hard drive like I do with windows media files. So, this thing reads you the blog entry? Cool!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Jun 2003 00:51:24 +0000

I've implemented this on my site so that it writes a text link instead of a button (click on the “Read It To Me” link on each entry). I get into more detail on my site, as limits in the coment form make putting in code hard.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Jun 2003 23:43:10 +0000

heh…just read through some of the rest of the comments on this post. Isn't it funny how fame and popularity wanes when you don't have your own tv show anymore????

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Jun 2003 23:41:15 +0000

This entry is the poster child for beta testing….
Perhaps you should consider testing prior to promoting crappy software. Or maybe it's just that your code sucks….

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Jun 2003 23:25:16 +0000

chris, for the love of god, change this disgusting site design.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Jun 2003 23:21:47 +0000

Come on you can touch it. Please

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Jun 2003 22:53:04 +0000

sounds like a french man that speaks in run on sentences. pardon moi? qu est que ce? au revoir…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Jun 2003 22:44:26 +0000

chris, dude, remeber: less is more.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Jun 2003 22:38:24 +0000

Wish I could get the remove_html tag to work in Blogger. I almost had it on my site too. Oh well.
http://www.idiotsite.com won't be speaking to me.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Jun 2003 22:18:39 +0000

Oh yes – the reason some of the voices now sound odd (Chris installed Steve's script) is because they're designed for French, Spanish, or German. If you modify the voices definition to: var voices = new Array( 'crystal', 'mike', 'rich', 'claire', 'charles', 'audrey'); you will only get English voices – with a US or UK accent. It's all explained in the docs on the company's website :)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Jun 2003 22:12:38 +0000

Christopher: sure, but if 1) we aren't using Windoze or 2) we are, buit we don't have MS Agents installed? This will work for just about everyone…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Jun 2003 20:51:39 +0000

If you're going to use voice, why not use a script that will use the MS agents to read it for you??? Surely there has to be some out there. It's the same text to voice engine that is built into Windows XP. They are already in Windows for crying out loud and they sound a HELL of a lot better than what these “natural voices” do! I was doing something like this 3 years ago with MS agent and the genie character!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Jun 2003 20:41:55 +0000

Goddam, it sounded like Enri from Cheers…”I am going to steal your girlfriend, Woody.”

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Jun 2003 20:14:05 +0000

…actually I looked at the code again. My version didn't implement HEAD function, but was a script to document.writeln the VOICE line of the form each time. Would make it slightly more bulky, though not by much.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:55:10 +0000

I sent Chris the code 1st (only difference was that mine specified random of 9, rather than setting a var for numbere of voices) – but I don't think Chris was really serious asking :-( He replied that JS would “…bulk the code for each entry even more”. Surely he's joking. If he isn't, anyone wanna make a PHP version?