One MT reader says "The chip sounds very good with delicious robotic feeling, " and he's planning to build a "computer controlled musical speech synthesizer" around it.

ENGADGET: Music Thing: Singing speech synthesizers

Often the only reason that someone can tell that a computer is playing is because the synthesizer that produces the actual notes is not that good.

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So what's the future now that anyone almost can own a synthesizer in the form of some of the computer programs, KaBoom?

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The first song that comes on has computer beeps, whispering vocals, lots of acoustic guitar and synthesizer.

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