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Twenty Five Years Ago: The First Time an Apple Computer Spoke

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Have you heard? The new shuffle speaks! Which reminds me of the 1984 Mac launch, where the computer became the first talking Apple device, ever.

https://gizmodo.com/new-ipod-shuffle-moves-buttons-to-headphones-adds-text-5167946

The accent, that of a robot that actually dislikes you, like it does all fleshbags, is not all that different. Both of the voices are synthesized from your computer, too, as we realized in this patent.

https://gizmodo.com/how-the-ipod-shuffle-voiceover-works-5168274

If micronization trickles up like this voice application has trickled down, I suppose one day the phones and computers will be shuffle sized, too. Like in Zoolander.

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