Stephen Fry Warns About the Dangers of Voice Clones by j_gravestein

Discover more from Teaching computers how to talkA small window into the world of conversational AI. Join 1400+ consultants, creatives, and founders who also subscribed to this newsletter.Over 1,000 subscribers Stephen Fry spoke at the CogX Festival in London last week. During that talk, he played a video clip of a WOII documentary narrated by

ByHackTechOctober 8, 20230Comments

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The KIM-1 that sounds like Stephen Hawking (or: “jitbanging” DECtalk) by classichasclass

My 1976 briefcase Commodore/MOS KIM-1, a 1 MHz single-board computer with a 6502 CPU and 1K of RAM, has learned to talk — with a familiar-sounding voice. The KIM-1’s serial lines are connected to the last and smallest member of Digital Equipment Corporation’s true DECtalk hardware speech synthesizers, the 1994 DECtalk Express. The DECtalk’s classic

ByHackTechMay 20, 20230Comments

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Stephen Wolfram is killing Mathematica by anti_con_men

One of the saddest consequences of Steven Wolfram’s descent into megalomaniacal insanity (vis his decision to save science from itself by reinventing it in the image of a popular science book from the 1980s) is the continuing decline of Mathematica, his greatest (and, he seems intent upon forgetting, only) accomplishment. Why the return to bitter

ByHackTechApril 20, 20230Comments

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Mathematica, Stephen Wolfram (1989) [video] by nomilk

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ByHackTechFebruary 23, 20230Comments

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