Monk-E-mail

I’m sorry, this is quite possibly the funniest thing I have ever seen.  My co-workers have been sending me these talking monkey messages all day long and I am about to fall out of my chair laughing.  Using the text-to-speech feature with the “Paul” voice, combined with thuggish and crass language, can result in quite a hilarious outcome.  The voice synthesis is quite good too! It is fascinating how you can use punctuation to influence the intonation of the synthesised voice.   Watch as the monkey’s eyes follow your mouse pointer around.  Check it out here: http://www.careerbuilder.com/monk-e-mail/. 

The era of the modern man, where we build sophisticated multimedia applications to simulate talking simians dressed in drag.  You have to love that! Also, what a great viral marketing ploy for Careerbuilder.com, bravo.