On Carl’s encouragement, I contacted the Public Library of Manchester England. I wrote in hopes of finding some information about “Arnold & Lewis”, the manufacturers of my tower clock.

For years, I’ve used “spoken” prompts for my cellphone as well as various computer alerts. Most of these have been created using the text-2-speech demo from AT&T.
Today, I entered “Welcome to theSalmonFarm blog.” What I got was something very different. Given I had chosen a British female voice, the results sounded very much like a [...]

Sometimes a picture is all you need …

Zen has taken to the new training grounds with glee. Today she managed some structure training, followed by swimming, and washing up. The requisite nap was squeezed in before heading out to the pitch for a pick-up game of ball. It was all Zen all the time. The other players didn’t have a chance …

She [...]