Bot Contest

Looked around a bit and can't find that site yet. Here's one that is fairly good, though:
http://www.lhs.com/realspeak/demo/

or this:
http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/cgi-bin/ttsdemo

The original one I had found had about 15 different voices you could select, with different accents, like brit english, american english, scottish, and australian, as well as male and female, and sometimes several of each for those accents. I'll keep looking.

Yes, pleeeease

Oops.....semifinals are still at Scitrek (or at least that's what's still posted); FINALS are at GSU.

At last!!

The event at SciTrek is going to be from 11am to 3pm. Thanks to Robby Garner for that information. Who here is going to be there?

Me! As soon as I change my reservation.

If someone could buy me plane tickets I could be there!

I told you, see if a grandparent will do it. If I could buy them for you I would.

You (and Patricia) will be missed.

awwwwwwwwwwwwww you totally rock butterly!!!

i am spending the weekend turning my brain into oatmeal working on three consulting projects, man i wish i could go! That would rock!
Have fun to all who is going to be present and best of luck to all (16-17?) the entrants.

so the semi-final is a knock-out? or how does it work?

The goal is to take it down to 8 finalists. Beyond that, I have no idea. They have 5-minute conversations with each, apparently signaling each other when it's time to rotate. (Notice the li'l @@06 and such on Gaia's transcript today--could it be Loebner judges?) Examples of past transcripts are at loebner.net.

yes, the @@06 was found on Alice's loebner transcript from last year.

It's the day of the semifinal event at SciTrek. I'm excited, and I'll be leaving for it in about a half hour. But the Loebner folks still havent put up times or any expanation of what the event is going to be like anywhere on their site. I'd probably still have no idea if it werent for an email from Robby. So I'm not sure it's going to be much at all.

I'll report back when I return.