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Have you heard JFK 'give' the speech he would have given - twenty minutes after being assassinated?

Listen to the speech he [i]would have given[/i] [u]in his own voice[/u]!

Kinda creepy, I must say.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/05/10/is-technology-bringing-history-to-life-or-distorting-it/
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SteelHands · 61-69, M
I just listened to a few minutes of it but the damn piano music in the thing is so distracting that it interfered with my ability to analyze what he's saying. I shut it off.

If it's really one of his speeches then why is whoever made this using pshycological tactics such as this to sell it?
beckyromero · 36-40, F
@SteelHands Guess they're are just showing off the technology.
SteelHands · 61-69, M
@beckyromero My mistake. I listened to the wrong one.

So now that I've listened to the one without music I can tell you what I think.

First of all its not easy to listen to because the way he put emphasis on his words isn't the way I believe he did when he lived. Instead while some words do that in a natural way , many times in the synthetic speech do it in ways that are odd and sound strange. This also doesn't leave the same kind of silent space that most speakers do. The times when he'd look at the podium as if checking his speech notes before he would elaborate and expand on those sentences they used to make that speech. He was a genius speaker that I really don't think recited exactly the words in his speech notes.

The speech was far too short for a JFK speech.

That's my opinion.
jackjjackson · 61-69, M
I’d like to hear it but not enough to pay WAPO @SteelHands @beckyromero
SteelHands · 61-69, M
@jackjjackson I've listened to JFK recordings.

It doesn't even seem like a speech. It sounds like they used some sort of short reminder notes he probably had.

The synthesized "speech" was way too short and didn't really convey the kind of points characteristic of JFK.
jackjjackson · 61-69, M
His sister”s son John Jack Schlossberg seems like a young man who will go places. @SteelHands