Apple VoiceOver
When I first started reading through this, I was absolutely certain that I was going to find out that Apple had paid native-langugage voice actors to go through and read essentially every major song title that there was out there, and that these title clips would be downloaded through iTunes and incorporated into the song metadata.
Boy, was I wrong.  Or should I say bzzozzy, I wzzazzz wrozzzng.  I still remember a plug-in voice cartridge I had for my Commodore VIC-20 in the mid-1980s which allowed you to program it, phoneme-by-phoneme, to speak through its speaker.  This sounds effectively identical, unfortunately.
Oh, and “cosmopolitan music libraries”?  Eck.

Apple VoiceOver

When I first started reading through this, I was absolutely certain that I was going to find out that Apple had paid native-langugage voice actors to go through and read essentially every major song title that there was out there, and that these title clips would be downloaded through iTunes and incorporated into the song metadata.

Boy, was I wrong.  Or should I say bzzozzy, I wzzazzz wrozzzng.  I still remember a plug-in voice cartridge I had for my Commodore VIC-20 in the mid-1980s which allowed you to program it, phoneme-by-phoneme, to speak through its speaker.  This sounds effectively identical, unfortunately.

Oh, and “cosmopolitan music libraries”?  Eck.


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