You Have Never Truly Heard Me Until You Have Heard Me Through Mary Robinette Kowal and Google Voice
Posted on January 3, 2013 Posted by John Scalzi 23 Comments
Mary Robinette Kowal does a dramatic reading of three Google Voice transcripts of my voice.
All of the human experience is in there. All in one minute and eight seconds.
It. Is. Magic.
Weird…. reminds me of translating sentences forth and back with different automatic translation tools.
Wow. Mary is simply… indescribably amazing. Half a century ago, that would have been the pinnacle of beat poetry.
It seems like goggle voice is nut reedy four prime times. Hawaii.
How many takes did she need to do that without cracking up?
She’s a pro. She probably got it right the first time.
Aaaaaand…Google Voice is on acid.
I was watching them as she put them up this afternoon. The other messages she read dramatically were even funnier — yours were the closest to making sense, actually.
I’m a gonna start using “Hawaii” as a greeting. It’s mucho banjo.
That reading is *so* banjo, man. Hawaii. Give me a call.
Sort of the reverse of Hooked on Phonics.
Mary certainly does bring the magic.
Dafuq did I just listen too??
I think in the future you should have Mary say all your lines for you. She has much better delivery and a lovely voice. You can gesticulate and make operatic facial expressions.
First comment, ever. Longtime RSS feed-reader.
Mary Robinette Kowal is Not Judging You.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737163/MaryRobinetteKowalIsNotJudgingYou.gif
Aloha,
m a r
PS: yes, I’m in Hawaii. It’s not banjo, it’s frickin’ uke here.
For a truly surreal experience, go to YouTube and watch this and the two accompanying videos with the “automatic transcript” running.
I need some more coffee now…
Sadly, google voice got it 100% correct, all of Johns VMs sound like that. 8-{D
Xopher @09:47
>Sort of the reverse of Hooked on Phonics.Which, in some circles, is correctly pronounced “Phoned on Hiccoughs.”
m a r, for a first comment, it’s a doozy. I really liked your gif.
Hm. Can you do that with Shadow War of the Night Dragons?
m a r: That’s my first animated gif! I feel like a real author now.
Language Log posted about this as a tie in on the previous post about speech to text : http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4406
That reminded me of the Bad Lip Reading videos. Great stuff!
@ Lurkertype: thanks! Just trying to keep up with you awesomes.
@ Mary Robinette Kowal: Can you imagine how much effort it took for authors like Twain and Poe pre-GIF? Flipbooks take forever to draw…