Speech Synthesizing the Linux Kernel for Arts Sake

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Speech Synthesizing the Linux Kernel for Arts Sake

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday December 22, 2002 @03:24AM from the anything-is-art-if-your-can-justify-it dept.

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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Damn... by phyberop · 2002-12-22 03:29 · Score: 5, Funny

The only problem is that they will keep interrupting the stream each time a new kernel is released.

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1. Re:Damn... by LostCluster · 2002-12-22 03:30 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Kinda a race... which will happen first, the stream finishes or they get a new kernel out?
Say Goodbye to WMA by ageitgey · 2002-12-22 03:31 · Score: 5, Funny

According to the Free Radio Linux website the stream is only available in ogg-vorbis format.

Microsoft understands and now finally the open source community does too! It's not about having a better codec (ogg vs. wma), but making the hot content that people want avaliable. Well, I think it's obvious to everyone that with ogg's virtual monopoly on voice synth spoken linux kernel broadcasts, wma's days are numbered.

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If you play it backwards.... by Fesh · 2002-12-22 03:36 · Score: 4, Funny

...does a creepy disembodied voice chant "Microsoft developers are weenies"?

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1. Re:If you play it backwards.... by Alsee · 2002-12-22 05:43 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  chant "Microsoft developers are weenies"?
  
  I just got this image of a really thin and really dry guy with long hair sitting perfectly still and chanting:
  
  I have four words for ya: Weenies, weenies, weenies, weenies! Weenies, weenies, weenies, weenies! Weenies, weenies, weenies, weenies! Weenies, weenies, weenies, weenies! C'mon! Wooooooo! C-c-c-c'mon, c'mon! Wooooooo! C'mon! Weenies, weenies, weenies, weenies! Weenies, weenies, weenies, weenies! Weenies, weenies, weenies, weenies! Weenies, weenies, weenies, weenies! Wooo! C'mon! Get up! Get up! C'mooon! Woo! Augh! C'mon! Give it up for me! Woo! Woooo! C'mooon! Weenies, weenies, weenies, weenies! Weenies, weenies, weenies, weenies! Weenies, weenies, weenies, weenies! Weenies, weenies, weenies, weenies! I...hate...this...company, YEEEEEEEEEEAH!
  
  If anyone doesn't get it, click here and Microsoft's very own Steve Ballmer will explain it to you.
  
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In other news... by archeopterix · 2002-12-22 03:50 · Score: 5, Funny

Microsoft paid the 100 most popular Hollywood actors to read aloud the contents of Windows XP installation CD image. "That will clearly demonstrate the superiority of closed source software" says the new Microsoft CEO, Mickey Mouse.
Reasons to do it!! by Brent_Litzer · 2002-12-22 03:56 · Score: 3, Funny
- Give Stephen Hawking 600 days of fame
- Blind people have rights too
- People that have never touched a keyboard can now understand the whole Linux thing
- New method of torture for captured terrorists
- Noise to break in new stereo speakers
- To prove that if nobody listens, does it still make a noise?
- To prove that the Linux community is a bunch of wackos
- Give the Farscape people something to do
- To give Gates the evidence that all Linux supporters are freaks to the degree that you should not trust Linux in your business.
- Show aliens that were are too stupid to be a threat
- Another topic for small talk at parties
- To one up the Windows' 2000 text to speech reading of the swap file
- What else would a normal Linux geek do with extra bandwidth and no fear of ridicule?
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Awesome! by cporter · 2002-12-22 04:03 · Score: 5, Funny

This is awesome! Now, does anyone have a speech-to-text program that accepts ogg streams as input?
Re:Hmm... could be raunchy by rogueuk · 2002-12-22 05:48 · Score: 4, Funny

have you looked at some of those comments? it's hilarious:

./Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl:650: If you don't see why, please stay the fuck away from my code.
./arch/mips/kernel/irixelf.c:759:#if 0 /* XXX No fucking way dude... */
./arch/mips/kernel/irixioctl.c:2: * irixioctl.c: A fucking mess...
./arch/parisc/kernel/signal.c:229: printk("fuckup in sys_rt_sigreturn, sending SIGSEGV\n");
./arch/parisc/kernel/signal.c:372: /* ARGH! Fucking brain damage. You don't want to know. */
./include/asm-mips/mmu_context.h:18:/* Fuck. The f-word is here so you can grep for it :-) */