Some days ago BoingBoing posted an item which left me shaking my head...
"In yesterday's New York Times, Author's Guild president Roy Blount Jr. rails against the Kindle's [E-book reader] text-to-speech feature, opining that it infringes copyright because it provides a 'derivative work' by creating audio editions of your textfiles. Blount says that eventually, text-to-speech will be so darned perfect, the audiobook market will be destroyed by it, so he aims to do something about it right now. "
My thought was that poor Mr Blount must be deluded. How insane to presume that a text-to-speech program could ever equate the performance of a live human speaker.
Will Wheaton posted audio here which confirms my view.
And the cartoon at the left... it serves as a reminder that any technological advance brings to crypto-Luddites crawling, yapping vociferously, out of the woodwork.
Monday, March 02, 2009
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