Mortal Fear
“I click the mouse and open the first. Seeing the length of the text, I push ALT-V to activate the most unique feature on my EROS computerits voice.The first time I heard EROS speak I felt strange. Then I realized it was not the first time I had heard a computer talk. The telephone companys computers had been talking to me for years. I had toyed with digital sampling keyboards that could exactly reproduce anything from a thundering bass to a contralto soprano. The voice chip inside the EROS comp...uter is similar. However, it is not voice-recognition technology. Getting a computer to verbalize text displayed on its screen is relatively simple. Getting one to recognize millions of different voices speaking with hundreds of different accentseven in one languageis currently taxing the best brains in the R and D departments of the worlds top high-tech firms.EROS cannot hear.But it does talk. Its voice can take on any pitch between twenty and twenty thousand hertz, which is slightly superfluous since my multimedia speakers bottom out at around one hundred, and my rock-and-roll-damaged eardrums probably top out at ten thousand.MoreLess
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