Just A Minute

On 6 March 2018 at 05:56, Mark sirnylon@... [just-a-minute] <just-a-minute@...> wrote:

 

Hi all

Today I wondered how JAM might sound to future generations if only Dean's transcripts of the shows survived the robot overlordship of Earth.

So I went to 

https://sourceforge.net/ projects/espeak/

to get a nifty and free speech synthesizer and fed it a bit of the transcript of

JAM-2000-01-17@521,S36E05= Laying It On With A Trowel-v2[ws]

For reference, here is the text: 

"Let's begin the show, Stephen Fry would you take the first subject, it is laying it on with a trowel. Sixty seconds as usual starting now.

STEPHEN FRY: Haha, what do I know of that subject compared to our chairman Nicholas Parsons? Dynamic, diverse, scintillating, talented, warm feminine humour on the distaff side, teaming metropolis and egging us on! That's laying it on with a trowel. I believe the phrase unless I'm much mistaken comes from either As You Like It or Twelfth Night. It's certainly Shakespearean, I think it may be Touchstone or Feste who first described the eupheuistic trope, I suppose one would call it, a hyperbolic mechanism of speech...

BUZZ

NP: And Paul Merton has challenged.

PAUL MERTON: I'm not sure, he might be making up words! I don't know!

NP: So that euphemistic, I don't think...

SF: No, I didn't say euphemistic, I said eupheuistic.

NP: I know! Which is a made-up word."

The results were... interesting. Attached 

If Yahoo does not allow attachments, I've uploaded the speech to the JAM jar under JAM Extras > JAM-521-synth.mp3. 

Maybe the next JAM chairman will be Siri....

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To find out how to open The Jam Jar visit b9fx.com

Mark