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https://github.com/enkiv2/verbasizer-verbalizer

Column-based cutups with speech synthesis
https://github.com/enkiv2/verbasizer-verbalizer

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# verbasizer-verbalizer

Column-based cutups with speech synthesis



Based on descriptions of David Bowie's "verbasizer" script, which he used in generating the lyrics for Outside.



Verbasizer reads text from stdin, and cuts it into *n* columns (by default, 5; the first arg to the script overrides this). It then reorders the contents of each column randomly and pastes the columns back together.



The verbalizer script is a helper for picking a speech synthesizer (out of several common ones for unix-like systems). The verbasizer-verbalizer script composes these two programs.



Sample usage:



```

$ echo "No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone." | ./verbasizer



 and of  had shut conditions

 eighty steadily  might continued upright

 walked itself  sanely larks to

 long absolute  even under stood

 eighty met  the were for

 darkness more  can hills whatever

 bricks doors  its some silence

 by to  alone wood for

 No there  House continue and

 dream Hill  sensibly stand for

 of within  by sane and

 katydids live  walls stood firm

 stone are  not and holding

 lay years  floors  



$ echo "No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone." | ./verbasizer 3



 dream by  are

 continue whatever  and

 No silence  there

 sane absolute  can

 larks for  years

 neatly might  firm

 walked of  even

 darkness more  holding

 stood stood  steadily

 supposed alone  met

 against sanely  not

 of Hill  walls

 and and  to

 exist upright  House

 and doors  conditions

 continued within  itself

 against live  sensibly

 shut floors  for

 and for  to

 stone its  had

 eighty the  

```