Sunday, August 30, 2009

My voice is my passport. Verify me.

Imagine visiting your best friends blog and hearing her read her latest post to you. Imagine visiting CNN.com and hearing Carl Kasell of NPR fame reading news stories. Imagine opening your email and hearing your Grandmother read you a bedtime story. Now imagine Chuck Norris reading your Twitter feeds to you. We know that it is possible to make an audio file of a voice recording and transmit it via email or post on a website to be downloaded or played. We can also use a text to voice service or plug in to read to us. I imagine the future of the internet includes personalized automated synthetic voice applications becoming widely available. Using a hosted service or plug-in, hear anyone say anything.