Lenny's Text to Speech!

Welcome, welcome.


IF there are still some of you that are unfamiliar with Lenny's commentary of his own post, then you need to venture over and check it out.

http://zelaron.com/forum/showthread.php?t=45363


In this thread, we get a glimpse at hearing what it sounds like in the 'British' perspective. Now, it dawned on me that, why should we stop with just this? We have access to an Brit! Our very own Brit! Why not use him to our full potential.

Which is why I am gauging interest and possibly starting a thread that will have requests sent to Lenny foremost to read out quotes/passages from stories.


If you want Lenny to read something specifially, you need to provide the content

Ex: A link, a quote, something. Don't say hey go read pg. 121 from a Dawkins book, but in turn actually provide a short paragraph to have narrated.



Also, It occured to me that we could have Lenny do impersonations. Even though

I'm not much of an impersonator

I still believe it would be funny to hear a British version of crappy impersonations we hear over here all of the time.

I was thinking along the lines of

-Canadian impersonation (doesn't matter the dialect)
-Cowboy/Redneck impersonation
-New Yorker/Gotti impersonation
-Mexican impersonation
-Middle Eastern impersonation
-Possibly some ebonics.

Basically, it's whatever anybody could want. But then again, this is just a gauging interest thread, if nobody gives two shits then we can just move on to the next stupid idea. But this if the best I can think of for now.

Sounds like a scheme for the peon to enslave the duke, to me.

Could be fun..

This Mighty Duke is wont to appease the uneducated on occasion. It keeps them happy, you see, and happy peasants are less likely to revolt. But even so, I have large rooms in my castle full of cake, should that terrible time come. And if it does, well, I have enough strong arms on my serving staff for at least three days and three nights of lobbing said confectionary at the commoners.

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Anyway, currently the only request is from Thanatos, which is to read the post that was directed to GLG. Might take me a while - in Word it's three pages long!

I have a request for Lenny. This comes from a Dawkins book, so I've heard it in a British accent before, but it would be awesome to hear it from another British accent:

The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.

Just one moment whilst I untie my tongue, please.

Now, do you want that done in one take, or can I mix and mash?

Oh, and quoted so he can't change it:

I have a request for Lenny. This comes from a Dawkins book, so I've heard it in a British accent before, but it would be awesome to here it from another British accent:

EDIT: Here you go, MJ. If you want me to cut it down to just the quote, then I can do.

I'll have to wait till the morning to listen to it -- girlfriend's sleeping right now.

And that's what? Two mistakes this year, then?

Haha, yep. I even say in the recording that, "I've found his second mistake of the year".

Oh my fucking God, that was awesome!

You make my username awesome! Why, oh why?! We just don't have the same effect when speaking.

Honestly you kinda sound more Australian than British.

Nonetheless, this is a fascinating exercise. I think Lenny may need his own podcast.

Nonetheless, this is a fascinating exercise. I think Lenny may need his own podcast.

I concur.

Let's see... my exams finish on June 6th, I think. From then, I've got three weeks of free life until I start my Summer job at the start of July.

For the first week, I'm planning on doing nothing but Website Building - new site design, and a blog. I've already built the first page of my new blog site, so the majority of that work is done (I just need to do the rest of the pages), and I'm halfway through drawing up a new design for my site.

Now what I was going to do, in addition with blog posts (every Saturday or Sunday, hopefully) was record videos of me reading the blog and building up on it... but seeing as how Vista abhors my webcam, I might do podcasts instead.

EDIT: I'm also going to see about buying a domain/webspace from a professional host, seeing as how I'm into web design so much.

I'll have a few things tomorrow Lenny

Tomorrow is today, d3v.

Tomorrow is today, d3v.

Owned!

Here's a few quotes I'd like to have TTS'd

be who you are and say what you feel because those who don't matter, mind and those who matter don't mind"

"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."

Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever."

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death

These next quotes from Steve Irwin; the Crocodile hunter

And yes you must do them in the Austrailian accent.

Because when they strike it can be that quick that if they're within range, you're dead, you're dead in your tracks. And his head weighs more than my body so it's WHACK!

Crikey means gee whiz, wow!

Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They're on the way out, no matter what anyone does or says, you know.

Nice one. I'll get on them tomorrow, hopefully.

And get ready for the bestest Australian accent you've ever heard from an Englishman.

Say "Wo shi Hanbaobao Xiansheng."

Pronounced "waw shr hahn-bow-bow shee-in-shuung"