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0 pointssublinear9mo ago0 comments

Was that point not almost a decade ago?

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Not really. My 1983 Datsun would talk, but it couldn't converse. Alexa and Siri couldn't hold a conversation anywhere near the level KITT did. There's a big difference. With LLMs, we're getting close.

mgerdts9mo ago

Your car had a tiny record player.

https://www.autoweek.com/car-life/but-wait-theres-more/a1875...

bsoles9mo ago

Commodore 64 had text to speech in late 80s.

Also, my friend's father in the 80s was the driver of a French Consulate's member in Turkey. His car (a Renault) had speech functionality.

nereye9mo ago

Early 80s (1982), according to Wikipedia:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Automatic_Mouth

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anthk9mo ago

Test to speech it's trivial with Dr. Sbaitso or Flite in ARMv5/Pentium 90 machines.

hulitu9mo ago

> Commodore 64 had text to speech in late 80s.

Yes, and Windows had Narrator. And that's all. Since 20 years.

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