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.

Though Cepstral’s Patrick Dexter says the video features rough-cut, demo-quality processing, I’m still convinced this is incredibly creepy. Especially the line, “I love your tats, are they new?” that pops up around 1:43 into the video. After I got my second tattoo, I’m pretty sure a guy said that to me, actually. Or, I could go my usual route and employ the line at 3:15 - “I can become a futuristic robot ready to blast alien evil doers out of the galaxy.” Enjoy!