1. Already, we have technology that can take text and translate it into a computerized speaking voice. 2. And credit card and collect calls can now be handled by a computer and a computerized voice. 3. Another track on the record features a strange computerized voice droning disembodied poetics. 4. As an example of how society is losing patience with techno-laggards, observe the nastiness that is creeping into the computerized voices on telephone menus. 5. A computerized voice signals two United Parcel Service Inc. pilots flying above Salem to slow down, because they are approaching another aircraft too quickly. 6. A computerized voice informs you that you will be connected as soon as possible and that the company has won many awards for the quality of its after-sales care. 7. Even more crucial has been extensive, trial-and-error lab work by human factors engineers who work with professional speakers to develop computerized voices. 8. IBM is considering using it to make computerized voices sound more human. 9. In the stalls, computerized voices babble on about sexual feelings, women and other sexual identities and so forth. 10. Isbell teaches special needs students at R.J. Delano School in Kansas City, where computerized voices help the children to communicate. |