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My four year old son made a new friend yesterday. Her name is Michelle. He doesn't quite understand it, but he likes her. She's the computer generated voice in Windows XP.
If you go to the Control Panel, click on Speech, and go to the Text to Speech tab, you can type in a sentence and press "Preview Voice" to hear the sentence spoken with a computer simulated voice. One of the voices provided is called Michelle.
Tyler will talk for a long time with Michelle and he doesn't seem to realize that his dad is typing in all of Michelle's words before she says them. He treats her like a real person and enjoys answering her questions and talking to her.
I'll have to try it on his six year old brother to see what he thinks of it. For now, Tyler has a new friend. I just hope Michelle doesn't break his heart if he falls in love with her.
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