Re: Orange buys Ananova for UKP95 million

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From: Edd Dumbill (edd@usefulinc.com)
Date: Wed Jul 05 2000 - 13:33:44 PDT


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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