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Bruce
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 21, 2017 3:22 pm    Post subject: Fear not the robot Reply with quote

Every once in a while I see a little panic in our community about computers taking over our line of work. Sure, they can program a machine to sound just like so and so once they have programmed every sound into it, but one thing that takes just too much effort (time = $) is programming the inflections and meanings behind brand new copy. You want someone who can who can receive ten seconds of direction and then make the copy live. I fear not the robot, at least for quality work.

My favorite example of something computers can't figure out on their own:

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This from Leo Rosten's book "The Joys of Yiddish": (The questioner as asking whether he/she should attend a concert being given by a niece. The meaning of the same sentence changes completely, depending on where the speaker places the emphasis:)

I should buy two tickets for her concert?--meaning:, "After what she did to me?"
I should buy two tickets for her concert?--meaning: "What, you're giving me a lesson in ethics?"
I should buy two tickets for her concert?--meaning: I wouldn't go even if she were giving out free passes!
I should buy two tickets for her concert?--meaning: I'm having enough trouble deciding whether it's worth one.
I should buy two tickets for her concert?--She should be giving out free passes, or the hall will be empty.
I should buy two tickets for her concert?--Did she buy tickets to our daughter's recital?
I should buy two tickets for her concert?--You mean, they call what she does a "concert"?


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PostPosted: Tue Mar 21, 2017 9:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I love this very muchly...
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 22, 2017 5:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I love this very muchly ...
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 22, 2017 9:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I LOVE this very muchly ...
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 24, 2017 7:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes, Bruce...so funny and so true. We're in a business of not just words, but syllables!
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 24, 2017 10:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I love THIS very muchly dot dot dot
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 24, 2017 11:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Deirdre wrote:
I love THIS very muchly dot dot dot


Pardon?
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 24, 2017 11:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just trying to continue the pattern established before C-c-c-combo Breaker Ballenburg weighed in.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 24, 2017 12:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bruce wrote:
Every once in a while I see a little panic in our community about computers taking over our line of work. Sure, they can program a machine to sound just like so and so once they have programmed every sound into it, but one thing that takes just too much effort (time = $) is programming the inflections and meanings behind brand new copy.


Along these lines...

Google Home is experimenting with audio commercials.

Now that the public has become accustomed to piss-poor video...
(e.g. Youtube, Home video on TV, Reality shows, etc.)

Could mechanical audio voices doing commercials be far behind?

Let us hope not. Ninja

http://www.businessinsider.com/google-home-plays-ad-for-beauty-and-the-beast-movie-2017-3
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 24, 2017 3:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I love this VERY muchly.

Picking up the thread again!
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 24, 2017 5:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I love this very MULCHY...


(with extra organic material)


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