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Wolf
Joined: 10 May 2003
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Location: Middle Earth
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 Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2003 4:53 am Post subject: You have GOT to see this! |
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Okay, something Japanese that's light and fun.
If you speak even basic Japanese, check this out! What happens when an English dominated computer world collides with non - English Asia.
http://www.otomania.net/flash/f_sasuga03.htm 
Your Japanese friends will get a kick out of it too, I'm sure! |
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lajzar
Joined: 09 Feb 2003
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Location: Saitama-ken, Japan
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| Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2003 7:46 am Post subject: |
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| The voice synth is pretty awful. Sounds like a speaker of English with no knowledge of Japanese phonemes trying to read romaji. |
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Wolf
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| Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2003 8:06 am Post subject: |
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| lajzar wrote: |
| The voice synth is pretty awful. Sounds like a speaker of English with no knowledge of Japanese phonemes trying to read romaji. |
Um . . . that was the whole point. 
It sounds like an old voice program I used to own. Apparently someone in Japan got a hold of it, and used it to create this. |
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shmooj
Joined: 11 Sep 2003
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Location: Seoul, ROK
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I downloaded Microsoft Reader and had it read a book to me. I use a Japanese OS and the default voice synth was a Japanese voice (unbeknown to me). I was blown away by this Japanese "guy" reading this English book and spelling out words that weren't in his vocabulary 
Thing is, he sounded exactly like some of my students  |
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