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From: Alvin@cup.portal.com (Alvin Henry White)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Singing Computers
Message-ID: <31841@cup.portal.com>
Date: 18 Jul 90 02:57:41 GMT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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Birds can sing. Children can sing. Whales can sing.  When is the last time
you heard of a singing computer. Computers are supposed to be very capable.

Have you heard of even a supercomputer that can sing?

Why not?  A. Time change without pitch change.


The international computer chess tournament has been around a long time.
Singing has been around even longer.

Part of the problem is that computer speech experts and computer music 
experts can't talk to one another.

One of my favorite stories for computer conferences is approximately thus:
 "I went to an Apple Show and said "How about music?"  "Someone said, Why 
certainly, right up there at the 'Music Maker exhibit'. I said thank you, 
now what about computer speech?  They said, "Why certainly, right over there
at the "SmoothTalker exhibit."  Again, I thanked them and then added, "I am
from G.O.D.S.B.R.A.I.N. and I am looking for a "Singing Teacher."  They said,
"Oh, that is a problem because the SmoothTalker people and the Music Maker
people don't speak the same language.
  I said, "As best I know, all human societies on Earth have had singing
teachers throughout all of recorded history, as a consequence my mathematical
projection is that sooner or later a smoothe talker is going to wind up in 
bed with a music maker and they will have a little singing teacher." "If
you hear of one, I hope you will drop me a line because "G.O.D.S.B.R.A.I.N.
is looking for a singing teacher."

Sincerely, 
Alvin H. White, Gen. Sect.
G.O.D.S.B.R.A.I.N.
Government Online Database Systems Bureau for Resourch Allocation to 
Information Networks (GODSBRAIN)