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02-02-2006, 11:58 AM
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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  | 
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02-02-2006, 12:31 PM
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Yes, Radio Ones Chris Moyles and Scott Mills have been having fun with this all week!
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02-02-2006, 12:47 PM
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I can imagine Tom Baker having to 'confess' to all sorts of things! | |
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02-02-2006, 12:50 PM
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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!!
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02-02-2006, 12:52 PM
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Aparantly he recorded 17 thousand+ sounds rather then words that can be arranged to cover any word in the english language.
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02-02-2006, 1:00 PM
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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!  | |
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02-02-2006, 1:02 PM
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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. | |
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02-02-2006, 1:21 PM
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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.
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02-02-2006, 1:28 PM
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What a hit for BT this is, SMS traffic must have increased loads with this, hope Tommy is on some sort of royalty fee | |
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02-02-2006, 1:28 PM
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Supposedly took 11 days to record all the known words in the english language!!
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