Upping the creepy factor?
A few days ago, TTS company Cepstral announced it was providing services for the avatar-based virtual world/community IMVU Virtual World. I wrote a news story about this, but my searching didn’t end there. A press release about the joint venture included a link to a YouTube video posted by IMVU, demonstrating how the program sounded. [...]
Lend me an ear
I’m pretty sure Stelios Arcadiou is copying Van Gogh. The Australian performance artist, who goes by the name Stelarc, recently had a left ear surgically constructed and grafted to his arm. Why? According to an article on the UK Website GazetteLive, the artist wants his work to: “Challenge perceptions about the human body by exploring [...]
All systems go
Hey everyone! Welcome to Speech Technology magazine’s first blog. All the content on this site will be managed by me, Lauren Shopp, the magazine’s assistant editor. In coming weeks, additions will be made by other ST staff members, and hopefully a few industry insiders, as well. While news updates are made daily to our main [...]
