Matt Campbell (mwcampbell)

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In pop music, why are the male singers that can routinely go at least half an octave above middle C the most popular?

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Is it precisely because most men can't do that well?

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And Shuttleworth seems so smugly satisfied with what Ubuntu has done the last few release cycles. http://ur1.ca/8j2jv

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The GNOME project had a good thing going with GNOME 2.x. And Ubuntu 10.04 was polished. Why'd they both throw away what they had?

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Reading this rant about the state of GNU/Linux on the desktop really makes me sad. http://ur1.ca/8lv9t

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Blog post: Why I reject Christianity; what I now believe http://ur1.ca/88mkk

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Blog post: Situational ethics http://ur1.ca/88kko

Matt Campbell John Goerzen

@jgoerzen MARY also seems to have more sophisticated text processing. Both are free SW; MARY is LGPLv3; flite+hts_engine is permissive

Matt Campbell John Goerzen

@jgoerzen Both of them have a female voice based on the same recordings (the SLT voice); MARY's version is nicer IMO.

Matt Campbell John Goerzen

@jgoerzen Flite+hts_engine is lighter on resources, being C/C++, whereas MARY is Java.

Matt Campbell John Goerzen

@jgoerzen Following up on my suggestions about speech synths, I did a head to head comparison of MARY and Flite+hts_engine

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@jgoerzen I don't mean that as an accusation, since I work on proprietary software too.

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@jgoerzen I admit I'm surprised that you work for a SaaS company, since you're generally a strong supporter of free software.

Matt Campbell John Goerzen

@jgoerzen Where are you working now, anyway?

Matt Campbell John Goerzen

@jgoerzen Then, of all the programmers I know, you're still geographically the closest.

Matt Campbell John Goerzen

@jgoerzen Sorry, I misunderstood one of your blog posts. Somehow I thought you had moved out to Portland for the new job

Matt Campbell John Goerzen

@jgoerzen Yes, I'm still in Wichita, but I thought you were in Portland now.

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@jgoerzen I wish I had gone to the trouble to meet you guys in person when you were still in Kansas.

Matt Campbell John Goerzen

@jgoerzen At some point you might want to explain to Jacob that a talking computer isn't just a toy, that some people need it

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@jgoerzen MARY has more voices to try than flite+hts_engine, including American and British voices.