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Speech Synthesizing the Linux Kernel for Arts Sake

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. Re: Speech Synthesizing the Linux Kernel for Arts by Dunark · · Score: 4, Informative

    Am I the only person that thinks this is a massively stupid waste of time?

  2. Re: Speech Synthesizing the Linux Kernel for Arts by quigonn · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well, I heard on radio (Ö1 broadcasted it a while ago), and it was quite fun. I even was able to find which file they were currently broadcasting. :-))

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  3. Re:Been done... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative
    This has been done, but with DeCSS rather than the linux kernel...anyone remember the "descramble song"?

    For those of you with a nostalgic bent, it's here, at Dave Touretzky's Gallery of CSS Descramblers.