Internet Review

DICTIONARAOKE

Mr. Roboto, eat your heart out. Dictionaraoke puts Roger Troutman, Cher, and all robot-inflection-imitating vocalists to shame with its library of 100 computer-voiced songs. Meticulously constructed from perfectly enunciated audio clips gathered from online dictionaries and set to Casio keyboard-quality music, the site lets the musically adventurous listen to ''Anarchy in the UK'' performed not by Johnny Rotten -- but by Johnny Five. Along with clarifying the lyrics to such loose-lipped hits as the Ramones' ''Blitzkrieg Bop,'' Dictionaraoke offers a how-to guide for the aspiring automaton...and for that, we say domo arigato.

Originally posted Aug 16, 2002 Published in issue #667 Aug 16, 2002 Order article reprints

Add your comment

The rules: Keep it clean, and stay on the subject or we might delete your comment. If you see inappropriate language, e-mail us. An asterisk * indicates a required field.

500 characters remaining
Advertisement