<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Synethsis on</title><link>https://dawning.ca/tags/synethsis/</link><description>Recent content in Synethsis on</description><generator>Hugo -- gohugo.io</generator><language>en</language><copyright>Copyright © James Snell</copyright><lastBuildDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:19:52 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://dawning.ca/tags/synethsis/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>STP Replugged - Who would you call?</title><link>https://dawning.ca/posts/stp-replugged-who-would-you-call-osx-software-free-speech-synthesis/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:19:52 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://dawning.ca/posts/stp-replugged-who-would-you-call-osx-software-free-speech-synthesis/</guid><description>
&lt;p>I think it&amp;rsquo;s time again that I re-plug my free little &amp;ldquo;&lt;strong>&lt;a href="https://dawning.ca/projects/stp/">Shit Talker Phoenix&lt;/a>&lt;/strong>&amp;rdquo; program I&amp;rsquo;ve written for OSX.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>As you can see from the screenshot, it&amp;rsquo;s a window saturated with a mess of buttons. Each of these buttons are linked in to a speech synthesis engine, so when you press a button, the computer speaks whatever&amp;rsquo;s on the button.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>I based this entirely off of the old &lt;a href="http://unaesthetic.net/st/index.shtml">Shit Talker by Jaundice&lt;/a>, a well known, ancient but hilarious little program for making &amp;ldquo;prank&amp;rdquo; phone calls. I used this program back in the days of Windows 98 and if you try to run it now you&amp;rsquo;ll be met with general instability and ugliness (though you could run it inside a &lt;a href="http://www.vmware.com/download/server/">virtual machine&lt;/a>). I was motivated to re-write it for OSX simply because that&amp;rsquo;s what I was using at the time and I wanted something I could run natively to do the same thing.&lt;/p></description></item></channel></rss>