Speech Synthesizing the Linux Kernel for Arts Sake

ungulation writes "A joint project of SFMOMA, The Goethe-Institut, ZKM Karlsruhe, and the Walker Art Center, a group called CrossFade broadcast the entire linux kernel 2.4.18. From the CrossFade website: "In Free Radio Linux, the entire source code of the Linux kernel will be webcast over the Internet. A speech synthesizer will convert into talk radio the 4,141,432 lines of code, which will take about 600 days to read." According to the Free Radio Linux website the stream is only available in ogg-vorbis format."

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Re: Speech Synthesizing the Linux Kernel for Arts

[Chicane-UK]

Nope... you are absolutely right.

I can genuinely think of not one reason why the hell you would do this.

And its even funnier that its 'Ogg Vorbis only' - well thank god, that should keep out the non Linux extremists and purists from evesdropping on inferior MP3 to this highly secretive broadbast ;)