Phrased-based audio or video generators for the lulz?

October 22, 2008 4:20 PM

Are there any other phrase-based message or video generators along the lines of the late Sprint valentine greeting from the late Isaac Hayes or a more general purpose video generator like the one that inserts a name for president?

The Isaac Hayes site is gone and I can't find any examples of its output, but you could type in a short message and it would generate an Isaac Hayes-sung version of your message from samples of his voice. Any word not in its "vocabulary" would yield umms and unhs.

Also I remember way back on MeFi a soft drink (?) site from India (??) that generated a video from text, but my Google fu is failing to find it.

And yes, this is for the lulz, so it is serius bizness.

posted by turbodog to computers & internet (4 comments total)

icetruck.tv, which was made to promote the series Dexter, is similar to the "[insert name] for President" video except with violent crime.
posted by Rhaomi at 5:38 PM on October 22, 2008

This might be a bit too cheesy for your needs, but how about monk-e-mail? It takes your text input and generates audio, and er, a sort of video.

There's some similar stuff to be found on this page, amongst assorted promotional weirdness.
posted by Joh at 8:23 PM on October 22, 2008

Also I remember way back on MeFi a soft drink (?) site from India (??) that generated a video from text, but my Google fu is failing to find it.

Fanta Shokata. It appears to be gone now though, sadly.
posted by First Post at 1:05 PM on October 23, 2008

(Bombay TV seems to do sorta the same thing, however)
posted by First Post at 1:07 PM on October 23, 2008