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Just imagine what it will sound like when the ad copy of sales people makes it onto the air unedited! :eek:
 
It won't matter. Even if a few senior citizens are still listening, they won't be paying attention.
 
Perhaps some of you also stumbled upon this.....there was(maybe still is) a banner ad for a website that offers you unlimited synthesized speech(I think it was a year or two ago I found it). IIRC, the banner ad allowed you to type in words and hear them repeated back. Kinda choppy sounding(much like those automated voice mails that repeat numbers that you punch into your phone) - but that will of course all change soon. I'm sure when it's perfected voice tracking will be taken over by these machines. They'll try them on overnights and then on some weekend shifts and then it'll slowly start to take over much of the rest of the dayparts. Of course, a few stations with actual live personalities will be the ones to win over more listeners.
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Heck, we were doing that on the Atari 800... I recall our little band of conspirators typing in words that cannot be used on this forum, just to see what they sounded like.

I'm reasonably convinced that this is what The Weather Channel already uses for its "Local on the 8's" in the NYC Metro. The voice giving the Forecast For Your Area just doesn't sound "right."

But yes, welcome to "No Personality Radio".
 
cee said:
I'm sure when it's perfected voice tracking will be taken over by these machines. They'll try them on overnights and then on some weekend shifts and then it'll slowly start to take over much of the rest of the dayparts. Of course, a few stations with actual live personalities will be the ones to win over more listeners.
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Just because it CAN be done doesn't mean it SHOULD be done. No matter how advanced these things become, I can't imagine how a computer would be able to sound spontaneous and off-the-cuff, and inject the right inflection, tone, etc. into reading words from a text file. Watch any of the big celebrity awards shows, and you've no doubt seen how bad "scripted spontaneity" can be. I could imagine a system like this, either through user error, or on its own, making some embarrassing mistakes -- like sounding happy while reading a death dedication (especially "coming out of G***amn uptempo records," as Casey Kasem once lamented about) or perhaps just flat-out sounding dry and robotic when it shouldn't. By the time the PD (or whoever) gets the copy (and the accompanying "emotion" codes/tags/etc.) perfected, someone could voicetrack 2 or 3 days worth of shifts.

What would really be neat with these systems is seeing how they handle regional odd pronunciations... like how it would differentiate between chili the food and Chili the Rochester suburb.
 
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Hey, BobRoss, you're spoiling the corporate wet dream!

They'll have to put their "development" people back on their other innovation - the robotic listener. Just attach a PPM, and it follows a carefully tailored program to simulate real listening - while skewing toward the corporate stations of choice, of course.
 
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