[krish]

you might have heard that text messages sent to BT numbers are now voiced by Tom Baker
(interviewed HERE about it - requires RealPlayer; BBC News online - "Actor Baker becomes voice of text")

Anything goes, Little Britain narrations, all swear words, etc etc
- quite funny when using a web SMS service, copying and pasting a whole load of nonsense, and sending it to a landline

[Toasty]

Yes, Radio Ones Chris Moyles and Scott Mills have been having fun with this all week!

I can imagine Tom Baker having to 'confess' to all sorts of things!

[booyaka]

Yeah - it is quite funny - sent some interesting "TEST" messages to the wife the other day - she found it very funny!

You can have a right laugh with it!!

[Eddy Boy]

Aparantly he recorded 17 thousand+ sounds rather then words that can be arranged to cover any word in the english language.

[stealther]

Originally Posted by Eddy Boy

Aparantly he recorded 17 thousand+ sounds rather then words that can be arranged to cover any word in the english language.

I wondered how they had got the sentences so realistic as you know the same word can sound almost completely different in seperate contexts.

I Listen to Miles every morning. Tho I think he reached a new low level today by pulling his trousers down and and emulating a woman squatting for a pee!

[MonkeyKnuckle]

Originally Posted by stealther

I Listen to Miles every morning. Tho I think he reached a new low level today by pulling his trousers down and and emulating a woman squatting for a pee!

i listened to it aswell(up at 5am for work ) no wonder they have 300,000+ more listeners with stuff like pretending to be a woman weeing in the bushes.

[Timbo21]

I saw Tom Baker on Richard & Judy, where they were discussing this. They told him that thousands would now get dumped with texts using his voice. Poor Tom didn't seem to have thought of this & looked quite dismayed.

[Toasty]

What a hit for BT this is, SMS traffic must have increased loads with this, hope Tommy is on some sort of royalty fee

[booyaka]

Supposedly took 11 days to record all the known words in the english language!!