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fallacy:
One of my favorite commercials as a kid were these At&T “You will” commercials. It is inportant to note every prediction of the future was basically a pre-internet prediction. Now with every prediction You can just say your smartphone can do that.

With apps like Speechify I want an AI Tom Selleck voice so we can continue to make more future prediction videos.

RandyT:
Those are interesting, but I don't know how instrumental they were in any of those technologies, other than that they had (and probably still have) the best infrastructure for remote delivery.  But others are catching up.    The internet was around a long time before people used it for shopping and showing others what they had for dinner.  I'm guessing their marketing team made a laundry list of emerging tech and/or things they were discussing with partners and those ads were the result.  The faxing from the beach thing is a jarring exception though...not sure a lot of younger people even know what a fax machine looks like.  It also shows how somewhat naive we were at the time about the negatives of a totally interconnected society.  Convenience is great, but the cost is sometimes much higher than expected.

Sellick has a good narration voice, but I wonder how many would even recognize it today.  There are a number of tools which can run locally on your machine to do it for you if you are serious :)  A good VR machine can do a pretty good job with many free and local AI apps.  You just need some Python familiarity to get them running.

fallacy:
I was just playing around with some of the AI voices I have on Speechify. First thing I had to do was extract the music from Tom Selleck voice over. I could not get it right in Adobe Audition tools but then I discovered this AI tool called UVR5 and it gave me the results I wanted. I then Had AI read out the lines from the first commercial and put it all together in Adobe Premiere.

Man I wish I had an  AI Tom Selleck voice.

pbj:
They still wake up Gene Hackman for voice overs, Tom Selleck has a long career ahead of him.

It’s been a few years since I’ve worked in a clinical environment, but fax machines and dvdrs reigned supreme.  Aren’t fax machines from the 1830s?

 :cheers:

fallacy:
Fax word was being used loosely. Looked more like an email that might be getting sent to a fax machine for printing, but how that thing was was hooked up to a phone line from the beach was also not explained.

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