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The HalfBakery has all the hallmarks of a wonderful late night radio show: Debate, wisdom, confrontation, stupidity, and comedy to name a few. With a little technology, I think I could soon be kicking back in my chair and listening to the best non-stop radio show ever, on HalfBakery FM.
There
are many products available which could turn the typed word into synthesised speech, and if you had a series of preferences, you could choose your favorite music, which would kick in whenever the HalfBakery had a quiet moment.
You could assign the voice of your choice to your favorite HB regulars, and of course you could "phone in" by contributing with your keyboard in the usual way.
DJ Jutta hosting. Commercial free.
Choose your accent
http://www.halfbake...Synthesis_20Accents
[Fishrat, Oct 05 2004]
transfer hb to this format. each week two nominated halfbakers head a team with jutta adjudicating..
http://en.wikipedia..._I_Got_News_For_You
satire / comedy news programme [po, Oct 05 2004]
CBC Radio
http://www.cbc.ca/audio.html
[Worldgineer, Oct 05 2004]
Robot Radio
http://www.spacebrothers.com/robotradio/
Similar idea, with more frills. Backbone is text-to-speech of RSS feeds. [jutta, Oct 05 2004]
Got Invention Radio
http://www.inventor...got-invention-radio
Inventor's digest magazine [Sunstone, Sep 18 2010]
Invention related TV shows, HalfBakery could do it too
http://www.hulu.com...uery=invention&st=1
Invention related TV shows on Hulu [Sunstone, Sep 18 2010]
[link]
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To be able to speak on-air, would I have to get rid of the accent? |
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Yes. And stop snapping your gum. That's, like, so annoying. |
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I think Jutta was interviewed on the radio once about the halfbakery but I could be dreaming that. |
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As for halfbakery FM, maybe it could be in the form of the cartalk show on NPR, a show I thoroughly enjoy but seldom get a chance to hear. People would call in with their ideas and two thoughtful and humorous hosts would try to solve problems with the idea, or poke fun at it, along with the help of other callers and people participating online. |
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You could have any accent you wanted, apparently. [link] The question is, would it be better for the speaker or the listener to choose the accent? |
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What if some morning talk show openly discussed the ideas of the halfbakery from the preceeding day? Like Howard Stern talking about how he too would like a hat made of cockroaches. |
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I have seen Mythbusters and agree that it would be a good format. |
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However, a really, really well produced radio format version of HalfbakedBusters, where it sounds as if folks are trying the various inventions, could be a laugh. Preferably narrated in hushed tones by Dick Cavett. |
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"And we see the camera crew, the three of them, taking position near the speed bump. They have a large clear shield placed between themselves and the speed bump, presumably in an effort to keep the equipment from being sprayed with custard. Now, we see the test vehicle . . . has turned around and is gaining some speed . . . " |
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Television? Talk about ambitious! I think the mythbusters format would be great; but how about adding in the annotations to the idea ala "Pop-up Video" (from VH1)? |
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//What if some morning talk show openly discussed the ideas of the halfbakery from the preceding day?// [Op] This is exactly what I do for a living, although I don't mention B/2 ideas on my show. Sadly, as Jutta points out, most commercial radio is superficial, and for good reason. Most commercial listeners at breakfast listen for about 15 minutes in the morning, while doing something else (driving/cooking/eating/arguing) and they don't have time to get too involved in brain-taxing ideas. [Jutta], I understand why you would say //Better on TV than on the radio//, but there is an old cliché about the pictures being better on radio. One thing radio and the HalfBakery have in common is their reliance on the imagination of their audience. |
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Oh, I don't know. . . I often have to imagine that the TV I'm watching is good. |
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IMHO, if we were to try do what we do here using any other medium it would have to be TV, but we could not successfully pull it off using people and live action. No, the right and proper way to present the 1/2B would be by using animation. Our resident artists and artistes like bris and Dr C (and probably many others my mind has temporarily ignored because I am a spiteful, wicked cretin) could certainly provide master drawings which a team of animators could expand whilst contibutors expound. |
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//However, if a 'posse' of us were to have to drag our arses into a studio before sunup every morning// I think it would end up in a punch-up! |
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//I could imagine there wouldn't be so much single ideas as idea scenarios which have components which others are laid on top of, and so on.// Which would scare the b'jesus out of programmers and advertisers! I'm sure it would sound great though.
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A reminder though - the original idea here would be for a simple automated audio version of the HalfBakery to exist online along side the normal HalfBakery pages. So advertising and traditional audience considerations wouldn't be an issue. Neither would the format, which would be automatically generated by what each of us type onto the original site. The only addition to what's already here would be your own choice of music which would kick in whenever the new ideas and annos on the HalfBakery were running slowly. |
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Halfbakery FM? Didn't the French
invent that? :) + |
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[Fishrat] the facts, while interesting, are unimportant. + |
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What radio show will it be on? (so we know when to tune in) |
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Our team would GLADLY share experiences, or commentary if it would be of some use, [jutta] |
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I'd rather see it in a "conference table" format. Picture po, helium, phundug, farmerjohn, reensure, bristolz, worldgineer, and the others sitting around with cups of coffee.
One of our friends would say "Hey, you know I just had an idea for a monster treadmill where you have to run because you are being chased by monsters". This would quickly be retorted by two other guests who say they invented that same idea two months ago, and it's really just an adaptation of the Hullaballoon where you run instead of fly and there are monsters.
Periodically, the conversation would be punctuated by FarmerJohn piping up with an idea for an ingenious new clock. |
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//Picture po, helium, phundug, farmerjohn, reensure, bristolz, worldgineer, and the others sitting around with cups of coffee.//
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[Phundug], you know this will never work because they'll all just sit around making paterns with [AO]'s coffee mug design! |
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I think we should shoot for a movie. Sort of 'Breakfast Club' meets 'Airplane' meets 'A Clockwork Orange.' |
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"Eat my Shirley yarblockos!" |
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It's the 2nd. Does anyone know which CBC show [jutta] will be on? The CBC website says "Local Noon Hour Program" will be on then, which is different across Canada. |
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The show is underway in the Central Time Zone. The show is called Half-Baked. |
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CBC Radio One - Live from Toronto |
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Ok, I found it. For those that want to follow along, click on my link, then on one of the Radio One links. [lbaf], did I miss the [jutta] interview? |
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Aw, I missed it. She just listed the stories they'll talk about in the second hour and the HB wasn't in the list. |
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Its up next, actually ... I'm central time zone, its 12:09, and there's a loser singing, and up next is [jutta], methinks |
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Didn't expect that the interview would have me searching for "vibrating tampon". The world is a strange place indeed. |
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(1:30 EST) Oh, man, so close... |
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YAY! -- nice show, [jutta] - you and your toilet humor! |
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Now just to get you on Letterman ... |
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//She sounds like Martina Navatorova// The interviewer, or Jutta? |
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Jutta, methinks ... But I've never heard Martina Navatorova speak ... |
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I would've liked to hear that. |
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Very enlightening to me, anyway ... |
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I swallowed my tongue trying that one... |
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yoota ... thats about what it sounded like to me ... |
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Thanks [jutta], that link is exactly what I envisaged. Imagine the 'bakery being spoken with this software. I could sit and listen for hours. |
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Long ago I suggested to Drew Curtis at fark.com that his site content was good TV show material. He put out a request to FARK viewers soon after, on the FARK site, to see if anyone had experience getting such a show rolling. He must have found one or more people as FARK TV launched January 17, 2007. It is now on YouTube. I don't see why HalfBakery couldn't do the same, as mentioned above; such shows seem to be popular by looking at the success of invention related TV and radio shows now. |
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Does anybody have a copy of that interview? I'd like to hear it for historical interest (and to confirm I'm pronouncing [jutta]'s name correctly in my mind). CBC has recordings of their shows on their website, but I think that only goes back 3 or 5 years, so they wouldn't have it. |
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