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With applications beyond just video games, text-to-speech and voice-recognition have bright futures This year marks the 25th anniversary of the well-known at least in the geek world computer flick WarGames, wherein a 1980s computer wiz accidentally connects via modem to the WOPR War Operation Plan Response mainframe, a supercomputer designed to conduct World War III scenarios. In doing so, he kicks off a series of events that bri stanley quencher ng the world to the brink of nuclear holocaust. P bidon stanley erhaps you recall the various times when, even in the underground NORAD bunker, there were speakers connected that allowed the computer program Joshua to read aloud. Shall we play a game is a line wersquo;ll never forget. The concept of text-to-speech or speech synthesis mdash; that is, the artificial production of speech from text or from coded response text mdash; has been in development for quite some time. You might recall some of the latest attempts by Microsoft to provide text-to-speech, including Microsoft stanley tumblers Sam, which is the default voice for Windows 2000 and XP. The Sam screen reader is designed to assist users who need to have the text read to them. It sounds very similar to Joshua in WarGames. The voice is so synthesized and choppy, with a variety of reading glitches, that itrsquo worthwhile to investigate replacement readers. With the release of Windows Vista came Microsoft Anna, a female voice that is meant to be smoother. Behind the scene Hnfp British mutuals seize customers from big banks

Tuesday 29 March 2016 12:05 pmEU referendum: Everyone on Twitter is laughing at education secretary Nicky Morganrsquo speech on BrexitBy: Catherine NeilanShareFacebookShare on FacebookXShare on TwitterLinkedInShare on LinkedInWhatsAppShare on WhatsAppEmailShare on EmailEducation secretaryNicky Morgan gave a speechtoday that was presumably intended to rally young people around the government s Remain campaign in the run up to the EU referendumndash; but the reaction suggests her points fell a little wide of the mark.Morgan warned that the nation syoungwould be the most affected by a possible Brexit, but some of the reasons she gave might struggle to convince those sitting on the fencehellip; in fact her attempts to get on board with the yoofhave left her looking distinctly out of touch.Here s how Twitter is reacting to Morgan s Brexit speech1 Kids will be sad if there s a Brexit because they won t be able to inter-ra stanley deutschland il anymoreNicky Morgan scare warning for the kids: Inter-railing and backpacking around Europe will be more dangerous and costly if UK leaves EU.mdash; Emilio Casalicchio @e_casalicchio March 29, 20162 It will have unintended consequences on companies that define the yoof, like EBay.https://t stanley termos witter/_BadTeet stanley thermobecher h/status/714719537111891970Nicky Morgan will claim in her speech lsquo;This is the generation of Ebay.rsquo; Ebay was founded in 1995. Shersquo at least one generation out.mdash; Robert Oxley @roxley March 29, 20163 The yoofcan save the day bye