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   From: TimSlattery@utexas.edu   
      
   Physics Perspective  wrote:   
      
   >Join physicist Michio Kaku as he examines one of the greatest   
   >achievements in history through a scientific lens.   
      
   Thanks for posting this link. This is an *excellent* lecture.   
      
   But I have a question about it. It *sounds* like Michio Kaku talking   
   (I've seen him on many TV programs.) But he wouldn't keep saying "one   
   thousand nine hundred sixty seconds" when he meant "nineteen-sixties".   
   A computer translating text to audio would do this when it encountered   
   "1960s" in the text.   
      
   So what's going on here? A text-to-audio program that's smart enough   
   to use Kaku's voice and his inflections, but not smart enough to know   
   that "1960s" should be pronounced "nineteen-sixties"?   
      
   Oh well. Other than that, I loved it!   
      
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   Tim Slattery   
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