Comment Speech Synthesizing abuses (Score 1) 101
Many moons ago, when I was a leet Commodore 64 Basic programmer who also used hex editors to disable copy protection in such games as "Raid on Bungeling Bay". Me and my friends had software that would take a string of english words and turn them them into audible words. We would use this to call up friends and insult them using the words of the C-64 through the telephone. Great fun was had by all, Even more fun would have been had If "bad words" were enabled.
I can see Bell engineers keeping themselves amused for hours with this thing. =]