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Let Me Sing It For You

Posted Nov 14, 2003

Metafilter pointed me to the interesting Let Me Sing It For You speech synthesis toy, which converts a typed sentence into sound samples from popular songs. The sample list is far from complete, so I tested some of the most common words in the English language with it. All the words that I found are below. The list is very incomplete, so feel free to fill in any missing words you've found in the comments. (Preferably at least ten at a time.)

zero one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty thirty fifty sixty seventy ninety hundred Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday January February March April May June July September October November December first second third ass bitch blow dick fuck fucker shit suck motherfucker pussy

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5 Comments (Add Yours)

Nov 14, 2003
3:33 PM  
bob wrote:

heres a few for the list: holy blue ship toy gone birthday jesus joke english born ocean art sing greatest miss missing peace fire wedding sister. Also, those last three are all sung by billy idol in the clip. Its fun to go through and see how many words you can match to an artist.


Nov 14, 2003
3:39 PM  
Andy Baio wrote:

The third-to-last is Jim Morrison from "Light My Fire," not Billy Idol.


Nov 14, 2003
3:56 PM  
bob wrote:

dang, thought i had it there for a minute. oh well...addtionally, they seem to have all the bad words down...except fucker doesnt actually sound like it.


Nov 21, 2003
9:15 AM  
Anonymous wrote:

hi there babe


Jan 6, 2004
12:57 PM  
Smumdax wrote:

I must say that motherfucker isn't treated like a whole word but as mother & fucker... so in that case, I'd say that "motherfucker" itself isn't in it.

Much like "something" "someone" or "somebody"... lol, this last one is actually quite funny...


 

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