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I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that...

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robgrayson

We now have radio generated by computer, encoded so computers can detect which computer is sending the artificially synthesized signal, make a record of the reception, and award ratings points. We have advanced to the point where, theoretically, no human interaction is required. Why? Corporate says, "Because the mission is too important for us to allow you to jeopardize it."

I am reminded of the comment made after the advent of Drake-Chenault automated programming... that Bill Drake made disk-jockeys sound like robots, then made robots sound like disk-jockeys. (As an aside, while googling to try to support this statement, I ran across an article from Billboard in 1967 in which Ron Jacobs defended KHJ's jocks, specifically saying "The DJ's are not robots". Further down the page is a picture of a new Capitol Records act, The Knack. 12 years before "My Sharona", apparently there was a different "The Knack" on Capitol records. Us humans, if we are lucky, learn something new every day!)
 
So what happens in a very few years when voice synthesis becomes completely natural sounding and corporate can program what “jocks” say by sending the text of the breaks to the computers?

I predict we'll have "air staff" making odd mispronunciations of local words (much like the NOAA weather radio said “Too-NEE-kah" for years before it got “Tunica” right.

And much like today when the local weather guy is going on about sunny skies and being interrupted by the EAS Tornado Warning…no one will care.
 
At my station a couple of weeks ago, I stayed late until we went off the air to run channel 5's coverage of severe weather as it was going through Shelby County. You don't have too many live people that stay into the evening hours these days to deal with severe weather warnings, even if affects a major metro area. Jonesboro is really the only place of any real size that my station can reach outside of the Memphis metro area. Maybe, the cylons from the 1970's and 2000's Battlestar Galactica will take over Earth and get rid of these whiny humans that complain about needing to eat and drink. Humans are so inefficient.
 
radiosaur said:
I predict we'll have "air staff" making odd mispronunciations of local words (much like the NOAA weather radio said “Too-NEE-kah" for years before it got “Tunica” right.
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It will be not unlike what WREC sounds like when the out-of-towners do the newscasts. Some of the pronunciations are -- um -- creative.

DE
 
DeadElvis said:
radiosaur said:
I predict we'll have "air staff" making odd mispronunciations of local words (much like the NOAA weather radio said “Too-NEE-kah" for years before it got “Tunica” right.
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It will be not unlike what WREC sounds like when the out-of-towners do the newscasts. Some of the pronunciations are -- um -- creative.

DE
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OK, I gotta ask everyone — what are your favorite (or most hated) local name mispronunciations? Mississippi is full of odd town names, but I never came across anything around Memphis that had me scratching my head. :)
 
I have a few "robot-voice" elements that run on my Pt 15.
I think I need to get an audio clip where HAL tells Dave he can't do that, and it would also be nice to have
HAL singing " A bicycle built for two."
 
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