It's dictionaraoke time (again)!
Feb. 21st, 2006 12:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
example22Back in the 80s, I used to own a borderline-unlistenable recording of Rock Around the Clock, painstakingly voice-synthesised with a Vocoder by some short-lived group or other (Telex, I think).
Twenty years later, most online dictionaries could read words to you, and apparently "dictionaraoke" was a passing fad a couple of years ago (don't know about you, but I missed it at the time). Here's my favourite: I Got You Babe, rendered as a touching duet between Encarta and the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
But now we have Tom Baker reading our SMSes, and dictionaraoke is back. Here's the man himself, singing Video Killed The Radio Star...
(via b3ta.com)
Twenty years later, most online dictionaries could read words to you, and apparently "dictionaraoke" was a passing fad a couple of years ago (don't know about you, but I missed it at the time). Here's my favourite: I Got You Babe, rendered as a touching duet between Encarta and the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
But now we have Tom Baker reading our SMSes, and dictionaraoke is back. Here's the man himself, singing Video Killed The Radio Star...
(via b3ta.com)
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Everybody's at it
Date: 2006-02-22 12:49 am (UTC)