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example22 ([personal profile] example22) wrote2006-02-21 12:10 am

It's dictionaraoke time (again)!

Back 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)