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Steve Bennett wrote:
On 3/21/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
Forget eurocentric I suspect you would hit anglocentric. The number of tunes known to everyone is so small the computer could just enter the same answer every time and and get an account soon enough.
Beyond "happy birthday" I'm at a loss to think of *any* tune known to everyone. Maybe the Ode to Joy. Maybe.
Possibly, but selecting the European (Pan-)National Anthem as an example is a bit of a sop to the "eurocentric" charge. :-)
Initialy you could just use plain speach and rely on the issue that no one else uses them so no one is going to bother makeing a bot. More advanced aproaches could involve spoting male and female voices against background noise.
That could work, though automated (unattended) text-to-speech synthesis has not significantly improved in my lifetime. (Read: it's terrible. Yes, even IBM's whizzo-prang stuff. Horrendously disjointed and considerably more difficult to use as a "test" of something's humanity than would be desired, I feel.)
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