Personalized voice recordings by Elwood "You've got mail!" Edwards
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·January 14, 2025echoangle
Maybe I missed it but the article doesn't seem to contain the original sound. Here's a YouTube upload of it:
yladiz
I wonder how many recordings he did. I hope that more people come out of the woodwork and share the recordings they bought from him, like in this case, especially if there are some slightly silly ones (like "Use the source, Luke!").
Aside: I was so worried it was going to be an AI voice generator based on his voice. I sadly think it's inevitable but I can hope he didn't make enough recordings to be able to reliably synthesize his voice.
mnky9800n
This always reminds me of the mst3k quip, "You've got male pattern baldness!"
globalise83
Very enterprising on his part, and a nice reminder of the culture of the early-ish web.
Moosturm
Those are the things I like about John GC: still having fun with the small things in life.
jgrahamc
Life is far to short to take it seriously all the time.
jansan
Wait a minute, 22 years ago his wife worked for what? "Quantum Computer Services"???
jgrahamc
Quantum was one of those words that sounded really cool (back then). Just look at TV shows like Quantum Leap (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Leap_(2022_TV_series)) or Sinclair's QL (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_QL)
ajb
Amusingly this is true of an older discovery that now seems very commonplace: vibration, around the time that scientists understood the simple harmonic oscillator, and the fact that the same mathematics applies to lots of things from sounds to pendulums. So to make their nonsense sound sciencey, spiritualists started talking about vibrations as well.
Not sure if there are any older examples.
cjrp
That's cool, Cameo before it existed.
beng-nl
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I used to have somewhere an audio file of Andy Richter (from Late Night with Conan O’Brien—and other projects, but this was during the Late Night era) saying, “Well, you’ve got mail, but it’s probably crap” that I used as my alert sound for mail. I kind of miss that.