Post ATNavWxWF1pKSqIVBg by likelyjanlukas@mstdn.ca
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 (DIR) Post #ATNXaMBYnnmh6h4qEy by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
       2023-03-07T17:08:03Z
       
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       Musk seems like the sort of guy who would have made fun of Stephen Hawking because Hawking had "a silly sounding voice."
       
 (DIR) Post #ATNYsOwxMY1wqbPl0y by likelyjanlukas@mstdn.ca
       2023-03-07T17:22:22Z
       
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       @lauren Indirectly relevant: I once had to attend a family event but had absolutely no voice, which would be a problem. So I played around with my reading software and chose a high-quality artificial voice that sounded remarkably close to my own (intonations, pitch, etc) then just typed my contributions and had the software read it.Everyone claimed they couldn't understand a word. 🙄In frustration I chose a more machine-type voice and presto! Clarity. 🙄🙄🙄
       
 (DIR) Post #ATNZ9WvwvsFMX16wt6 by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
       2023-03-07T17:25:36Z
       
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       @likelyjanlukas I've been working with voice synthesis systems since my early days at UCLA ARPANET (my notorious "Touch-Tone UNIX" system and other efforts). There are all kinds of often counterintuitive subtleties involved in what "free listening" (that is, no clue about what is about to be said) individuals will understand. Really quite fascinating.
       
 (DIR) Post #ATNZoSLAukrk9vQPvk by likelyjanlukas@mstdn.ca
       2023-03-07T17:32:36Z
       
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       @lauren That IS fascinating! I hadn't considered that aspect.(And in my case, there is enough random potential conversational content to be expressed I have no doubt that it would additionally complicate things. 😂)Just read your blog post on the Touch-Tone-UNIX and that's amazing! 😀
       
 (DIR) Post #ATNZq9yq9Fz1nLn4pk by shuttersparks@qoto.org
       2023-03-07T17:32:55Z
       
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       @lauren I'm sure he would. Musk is envious of and hates smart engineers and scientists. They are what he wishes he could be and pretends to be. This is why he invests in tech companies that provide plenty of opportunities to pretend that he's the brains. He isn't. Never was
       
 (DIR) Post #ATNaMq5H8uwde0Np8y by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
       2023-03-07T17:39:13Z
       
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       @likelyjanlukas I presented it at a USENIX conference (with live demo back to UCLA, if memory serves). Not sure offhand which one since I presented different topics at several of them over the years. As I've mentioned in the past, I discovered that people were unexpectedly very amused by my having Control-G spoken out as "BING BING BING!" And yeah, playing ADVENT over it was also an unexpectedly big thing among the grad students.
       
 (DIR) Post #ATNavWxWF1pKSqIVBg by likelyjanlukas@mstdn.ca
       2023-03-07T17:45:28Z
       
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       @lauren I can understand the amusement! 😀Back when I used to do tech writing, my favourite project ended up being the one where the engineers put a prototype on my desk, a bunch of inscruitable engineering notes that might contribute towards making an intelligible user manual for non-high-school-grads with English as an additional language, and literally sitting there pushing buttons and seeing what went 'bing!' 😂
       
 (DIR) Post #ATNbffXCgpjWNizNsO by FosseLeo@urbanists.social
       2023-03-07T17:53:45Z
       
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       @lauren I think he does enough shitty things that we don't have to make up hypothetical shitty things he might have done.