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This company uses the same voices (from a European company called Acapela) that I licensed for my in-car computer company. It's a very good idea; i've seen a few implementations but usually they're too annoying to listen to at length. A good trick is to use a UK English voice if you're american, or vice versa - then, the roboticness of the voice fades even more and your email sounds like a BBC broadcast.

The December 2005 issue of Electronic Musician features my how-to article, “The Art of Podcasting.” The issue won’t go online until January, but you can see a bunch of my source material now, plus an example podcast, at the EM site.

Happy Thanksgiving. As we gather with relatives to watch TV (the Thanksgiving Day Parade, your favorite football game) and to record home movies centered around a—hopefully—delicious turkey, I’d like to talk about mobile video and effective ways you can use the medium.

With EA's decision to sell music from their games as a productin it's own right - the question has to be asked, what does this mean for the future of game audio within the context of the game?

It’s my 50th O’Reilly blog (!), so I thought I’d cover something old but cool. At the Virtual Drum Machines site, you can play dozens of wacky-sounding yet strangely inspiring drum machine emulations.

Risk averse game design is the enemy of fun. In other words, it's the enemy of, um, game design. Yet we keep hearing that games can only be made with high budgets, and the game company's responsibility to the high-dollar investors necessetates risk averse policies. But that will not stand, says I.

This lovely site is a remarkable source, nay, museum, of "distilled essence of the worst" of the audio industry. Surely, this is what happens when complex brains get inspired, yet go slightly awry. Unless it turns out that these things work.

What makes it tick?

Our behind-the-scenes tour of Korg’s $8,000, Linux-powered synthesizer skipped one impressive feature: the brilliant KARMA algorithmic music generator. Fortunately, you can now experience it through a boatload of online music videos.