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Dictionaraoke - Fair-Use meets Karaoke

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the amuse-yourself-to-death dept.

stu42j writes "NPR's On the Media today interview's David Dixon from Dictionaraoke.com where 'A group of fair-use artists have created songs using the spoken pronunciation guides of words in online dictionaries. The result is an entertaining blend of computerized music and monotone singing.'"

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  1. entertaining? by tps12 · · Score: 4, Funny
    "Entertaining blend"? This must be some new, magical definition of the word "entertaining" with which I am not familiar.

    A much better project would be a neural network system that takes the entire works of Led Zeppelin and J.R.R. Tolkien as input, and provides us with some amazing new fantasy rock as output.

    I have determined that every Led Zeppelin tune can be interpretted in terms of Tolkien's Middle Earth with little difficulty. Please post challenges here.

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  2. One of these words does not fit by ObviousGuy · · Score: 5, Funny

    The result is an entertaining blend of computerized music and monotone singing.

    Can you spot the word that doesn't belong?

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  3. Pronunciation good, grammar bad by travdaddy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh yeah, I remember hearing one of their computerized, monotone songs a few years ago. They did get all the pronunciation right but they messed up on the grammar a bit. I think they called it "All Your Base."

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  4. Is it just me by MBCook · · Score: 4, Funny

    Or does this sound like William Shatner "singing"?

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