“My Generation about Talking,” a text generator which I first presented at the Software Studies Workshop on May 21, 2008, is now available in Portuguese translation, thanks to Cicero Inacio da Silva. It was made for use in a presentation, but the program is set up to allow a user to play the entire presentation or to access any of the fifteen individual voices, each of which affirms repeatedly in some way.

The program is in Python and will run from the command line in OS X and on many Linux systems. It will run on Windows after Python for Windows has been installed.

For instance, to run the English version of this program on OS X:

1. Download yes_voices.py to the desktop; if you download it to another location, move the file to the desktop.
2. Start the Terminal application and open a terminal window. An easy way to do this: Click on the Spotlight magnifying glass in the upper left, type “terminal”, and select the Terminal application. A window will open.
3. In the terminal window, type “cd Desktop” and press return to change directories to the desktop.
4. Type “python yes_voices.py” and press return.

• “Geração sobre a fala” (vozes_sim.py)
• “My Generation about Talking” (yes_voices.py)