In his own handwriting

/ July 11, 2014

First came the man. Then came his famous signature.

"Valmy"

“Valmy”

You can put it on your nightstand for just BsF 850.

For only BsF 850.

For only BsF 850.

You can use it to watch over your house keys.

Now you're only missing the house and its keys.

Now you’re only missing the house and its keys.

You can wear it on your wrist, or near your heart.

Really close to your heart.

Really close to your heart.

You can even have it tattooed onto any part of your body.

ID and signature.

ID and signature.

Buildings bear his mark.

For the world to see.

For the world to see.

But on July 28th , on his birthday, you will be able take your love a step forward.

In just a few days, you will be able to type endless documents in his own handwriting and read his Cadenas just like if he had written them with his own left hand.

Coming soon, the Chávez typeface.

#WeShitYouNot

 

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27 thoughts on “In his own handwriting”

  1. Many years ago, back in early 2000, I thought for a moment there was already enough material from Aló Presidente to create a Chávez random text generator. It would be possible to produce a virtual Chávez.
    Something like this from MIT but more sophisticated:

    http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/

    I thought it would be fun but then I realised the danger.

    Later on I thought we could actually use Chávez’s recordings, not just text, to create a text-to-speech like those used for booking or for GPS systems in cars, with his voice. It would be like creating a digital Golem.
    I just shudder at the thought. If Chavistas had seen this technology on time, they would have been able to pay one of the text-to-speech companies to produce a TTS so that Chávez could keep sending messages from Cuba all through 2013 and beyond.

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    • Isn’t that what Mario Silva claimed the CIA had done with his shows to produce the infamous “Audio de Mario Silva”?

      I don’t think it can be done to sound believable. However it would be hilarious to have the comandante eterno as your Siri voice and personality.

      There would be so much to ask him.

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      • It is not possible for a long conversation like Silva’s. It is possible for isolated sentences.

        If you go try to do long sentences or get into concatenated sentences, errors of all types will pop up immediately and there is no way you can just adapt here or there.

        But you can write several short sentences and about half of them could trick anyone, the other half no one. Some phoneme sequences simply won’t come natural. So: Silva is lying but what I say is feasible (but you will have to find out what sentences come up perfect)

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        • Every voice synthetizer has the same problem, when you listen them, they sound like freaking Soundwave from Transformers, or if they’re trying to mimic a human being, it sounds like uncanny valley all the way.

          There’s not a single program that can “create” a conversation out of thin air, otherwise, there wouldn’t be dubbing actors anymore:

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          • No conversations, I said, but SENTENCES.
            I’ve worked on this. For instance, you have a hundred pages of Chávez’s speeches. You are bound to cover all possible diphones (see Wikipedia) for stuff like “revolución”, “los|unos majunches”, “Venezuela”, “pueblo” etc and all kinds of preceding segments and in different tones. You will be able to build lots of sentences with normal intonation and perfect pitch for some topics…and for the rest it will be crap, scratches and so on. But what you get will be good enough to build a lot of sentences that will be realistic. If one sentence sounds like crap, you can paraphrase the message and you are going to find another form that will be perfect.
            This is what you cannot do if you are reading out an email or the like written by someone who was not used for reading that text.

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            • Yes, it could work in phrases or sentences, but in longer conversations or speeches it would start to lose quality.

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    • Chavez handwriting looks like little bird scratches to me.

      Now Chavez signature can be faked on official documents like land deeds or presidential pardons. I cannot wait to see all the fake quotes and other material that comes out.

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    • He would have made a better calligrapher , tv show man , or perhaps baseball player than head of a moderns government . He could win elections with his folksy bantering charisma , gift of gab and full bag of cheap demagogic tricks , but for his life he couldnt run a government without destroying it .!! Thats our disgrace that its easier in our country for an unscrupulous political operator to win elections than to run a modern state for the long term benefit of its people . !!

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  4. This will not end well …. the opportunities for humor are just too many. I look forward to the thousands of hand written “found” messages from the Comandante.

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  5. These blokes claimed to support open source. Shouldn’t there be a Chávez font with a free license?
    It should be included in the Canaimitas so that kids get the Chávez (normal, Italic, bold) font as default.

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  8. Now bureaucrats can apply for their promotions in the commandante eterno’s own hand. Who is going to refuse that?

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    • From now on all Forex/SICAD requests and carpetas must be filled out using the Chávez font. Oooohhhh, or even la gaceta oficial.

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  10. Trinchera Creativa: the self-proclaimed ultra-leftist artistic space on the imperialist created, Yahoo-owned Tumblr. I get the feeling the creators behind that page are also the proud owners of Macbooks, to underscore their ideological tendencies.

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  11. So, you can do this or you can do that with it, for sure. But seems to me the best app is to shove it down.

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