Fellow security blogger and supreme antispyware samurai Paperghost decided to play with an automated podcasting service, Talkr, more as a curious experiment than anything else.
The result is hilarious.
Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m not dissing the technology, because it actually is really cool. Instead of having to record a podcast, you just have the service create a podcast for you. Using machine text-to-speech conversion. And the conversion is surprisingly good.
But it’s not a real person…
His original blog is here.
And the podcast, in all its glory, can be heard here.
And his comments, including the classic “the voice is like a female Stephen Hawking” can be seen here.
Alex Eckelberry