Re: Orange buys Ananova for UKP95 million

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From: Strata Rose Chalup (strata@virtual.net)
Date: Fri Jul 21 2000 - 14:02:45 PDT

It would be worthwhile for entertainment value to write a markup engine
for Ananova that scans the text and does suggested markup based on it.
The particular application in mind is having Ananova read "Eye of Argon"
at SF cons...

_Strata

Edd Dumbill wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 10:18:48AM -0400, Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote:
> > > http://www.ananova.net/news/story/sm_9317.html
> > >
> > > Ananova is bought by Orange
> >
> > Does anyone know what text-to-speech engine they use?
> > Do they have patents?
>
> L&H stuff, I believe.
>
> Quite fun though, if it's all as I remember, the news stories are all
> marked up _by the journalists_ with emotions in inlined XML tags.
> One day I must find out how they persuaded journos to mark up content.
>
> I'll see if I can dig out some more reliable details.
>
> -- Edd 

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