Strange snippets of speech, scarcely recognizable, float across the mix and fade.
Rather than piecing together recorded snippets of speech from a large database, this involves overlaying the snippets on to an existing but similar synthetic-voice model, just as a costume might be draped over a generic mannequin.
The account spat out comical snippets of speech, including: "Unfortunately, as you probably already know, people," and the occasional link to a Web site advertising e-books about horses.
Burt Neuborne, a professor of law at New York University and a former legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union, said that while the debate was not new, "the ability to technologically call up snippets of speech" is.
Available later this year, the Hello Barbie is expected to use speech recognition and uploads snippets of speech to the cloud for analysis – sort of like a plastic Siri – while the IBM-backed CogniToys dinosaur connects to AI genius Watson, the computer that won US quiz show Jeopardy.
Cell phone calls are often interrupted by peculiar, and annoying, sounds caused by the connection briefly failing and tiny snippets of speech getting lost.
Auerbach incorporates snippets of speech from these readings into knitted tapestries, swarming with blurbs including, "There's no real time and space" and "Beliefs co-create reality".
This is a 445-page excerpt from a presumably much larger work, apparently consisting entirely of one-word snippets of speech borrowed from rednecks.
I think this whole angle of "gotcha" politics about snippets of speech transposed from one context to another is ridiculous and pathological for democracy in America -- and I cannot fathom why the Clintons or George Stephanopoulos are descending to this dirt, not to mention the guilt-by-association crap.
Do you think that you believe in yours more than they do theirs somehow?" Most pointed is "Let's Impeach the President," whose argument is no different from what you'd hear in Democratic (and, increasingly, Republican) households, with snippets of speeches helpfully supplied to illustrate Bush's hypocrisy.
