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Re:The curious case of whistled languages and their lack of ... by mcweaksauce on Thursday August 20, 2015 @10:55PM (#10095751)
Sine-wave speech reminds me of R2D2 from Star Wars. Does anyone know if sine-wave speech was used as an inspiration? Maybe R2D2 actually says coherent sentences in the movies, but we aren't used to that form of speech interpretation
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Re:The curious case of whistled languages and their lack of ... by codezero on Friday August 21, 2015 @12:57AM (#10096029)
I doubt it, only given that the sine-wave stuff I've seen is from way after the Star Wars movies. I don't think it was a concept in the 70s, but if you can find some resources, post em!
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