I love my friends… and I love Dave… and how much he sweats… and I kid because I love.

.. but this one is best.

This is courtesy of the tireless efforts of my brother to relive our days pounding bowl after bowl of golden grahams and watching this stuff:

AT&T’s labs continue to stay at it. I mean it’s clear they’ve had a knack for this kind of thing considering they’ve spun off whole companies just from their R&D department. This isn’t just another text-to-speech — this one speaks other languages too!  Especially interesting is its ability to talk in an accent if you feed one language into another’s algorithm.

Check it out.

http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php

If you have a lease account with Dell like I (unfortunately) do, try putting “Thank you for calling Dell Financial” into the last option. Eerily accurate.

This is from last year’s summer fun.  Can’t wait for it again this time around.

I just realized my first two posts have beef references… yum.

An old one but worth it. This was circa last christmas time.

Tis the Seasoned Beef