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Babble |
| Date: |
30/05/01 (92 review reads) |
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Advantages: Fun
Disadvantages: Sometimes misses out letters, DOS programme, Shareware but authors can't be located
Ever spent hours reading boring technical manuals, company reports and so on? The antidote is Babble.
The idea behind the programme is to take plain text files, analyse their structure and then blend several of them into new documents, maintaining the style but altering the meaning.
The package was produced in the early 90s by a company called Korenthal Associates which now seems to have disappeared. It was marketed as shareware but registering it could be a problem, although it works fine unregistered.
Several pre-analised files are included such as Shakespearian text and insults. You can feed in your own documents, blend in a few of the supplied files, add some speech impediments and regional accents, then let it loose to babble on. Beware though - If it runs at full speed it can generate megabytes of text in a very short time
There's a sort of "mixer" allowing you to vary the contribution from each of the original files.
The Quality Assurance Manager at work had spent months compiling our new procedure manuals for ISO9001 and was feeling a bit shattered. I took one of these manuals, added the company annual report and blended it with shakepearian text and a load of insults. The result reduced him to hysterical laughter.
Like the infinite number of monkeys, the software comes up with some profound insights into life, the universe and everything, but I'll leave you to feed in your own text for enlightenment
Although the programmers seem to be long gone, you can still get a copy from
http://members.tripod.com/~abadger/download/ba b200.zip.
It's a DOS programme but it seems to work fine under Windows 95 and 98. The only bug seems to be that it occasionally misses out letters.
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baboon - 30/05/01 Sounds cool, will check it out. Infinte number of apes? That's an idea, I could take over the world with my army of tame mandrills... |
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