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Woolfenstien
03-06-2006, 11:09 AM
Well, it's actually Speegle.

Example: http://us1.speegle.co.uk/search.php?q=Headcrab&v=3&voice=1

Great if you're blind.

The technology behind it must be amazing.
denacioust
03-06-2006, 11:54 AM
That is amazing.
blue jack
03-06-2006, 12:03 PM
hahaha
*laughs with you*
Your_Granny
03-06-2006, 12:13 PM
i think it's a very important thing, this can make internet easier for blind people!
this is what i call a REAL GOOD IDEA


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DarkReality
03-06-2006, 12:29 PM
AHHHH!!!

Search for Squeedlyspooch and listen to it pronounce it >_< Has something irish and a LOT of funny =D

This is great. *looks for funny sounding words*
lazyguy
03-06-2006, 12:58 PM
actually I don't like it makes no sense and blind people wouldn't know where to type so it makes no difference!
Mike Holiday
03-06-2006, 01:33 PM
It's called braille. Go look it up.
Woolfenstien
03-06-2006, 01:33 PM
actually I don't like it makes no sense and blind people wouldn't know where to type so it makes no difference!Braille keyboards.
Text to speech programs.
Duh.
Doomed Rasher
03-06-2006, 02:10 PM
The technology behind it must be amazing.

The technology is actually a bank of recorded voices, smoothened to make it sound natural. Some words won't show up.

Edit: Search for these and see if Speegle pronounces them:

aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriol ic
osseocarnisanguineoviscericartilaginonervomedullar y
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
praetertranssubstantiationalistically

They are real words. http://server03.xgenstudios.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

P.S. There are no space between the "l" and the "ic" in the first word, and no space between the "lar" and "y" in the second word.

vBulletin must have automatic spaces after 50 consecutive letters.
FoH
03-06-2006, 04:27 PM
Ive herd that before. That will help google out with buisness. Not only will it help deaf people be able to listen what they are searching for but people who feel bad for deaf people now refer to google. The computer thing that is saying that sounds depressed. Even if it is a computer generated voice.
Doomed Rasher
03-06-2006, 05:23 PM
Deaf people can't hear Speegle...:P
What do you want from me?
03-06-2006, 05:28 PM
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Ontopic, Eh ok But Why?
lazyguy
03-07-2006, 11:03 AM
Braille keyboards.
Text to speech programs.
Duh.
And how exactly do they know if they are typing into the text box?
And it missed out words.
Doomed Rasher
03-07-2006, 03:40 PM
And how exactly do they know if they are typing into the text box?
And it missed out words.

Blind people does not use internet. They don't use computers. They can't see anything. It's like trying to write a novel without a screen.
denacioust
03-07-2006, 04:00 PM
Blind people does not use internet. They don't use computers. They can't see anything. It's like trying to write a novel without a screen.


How many blind people do you know? Where my dad works there are classes for blind people using the computer. There are programs they use that narrate what they're typing. And also I had to design a game in Flash for a guy deaf and with no hands. Don't assume people with disabilities can't do the same things we do.
Doomed Rasher
03-07-2006, 04:08 PM
But it is virtually impossible. Well, it is heard that blind people have a strong "ESP". And some blind people made great accomplishments. But hey, sorry for the idiocy of that post then.
Uncle Sam Eagle
03-07-2006, 06:51 PM
AHHHH!!!

Search for Squeedlyspooch and listen to it pronounce it >_< Has something irish and a LOT of funny =D

This is great. *looks for funny sounding words*

Squeedileh Spoocheh!
ehntoo
03-07-2006, 06:59 PM
Really, it doesn't help blind users at all. I should know. My mother is legally blind. She has Stargardt's Disease. http://www.eyesight.org/Juvenile/juvenile.html

The text-to-speech programs that anyone who is blind and using a computer will have will already read google results or anything else on the screen. All it would do is blend with the actual text-to-speech program and become a messed up babble.
lazyguy
03-08-2006, 10:15 AM
Blind people does not use internet. They don't use computers. They can't see anything. It's like trying to write a novel without a screen.

Exactly! So there is no point in the damn thing!
Doomed Rasher
03-08-2006, 06:06 PM
Well, at least it is a cool text to speech rendering program with a fairly large bank of voices.