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Rex Basterfield makes tons of free synthesised VST instruments, but created an interesting 'resonating sound box' effect earlier this year that would seem relevant here for the box tone:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NBm0CdJ8x0

Got to recommend his Sim-Cimbalom instrument too... he created and released this amazing synth 12 days after I suggested it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALKOXqQXyTs

Many of his instruments provide little details along the lines of those in the article (see his narrated YouTube vids), all freely-available here, most-recent at the bottom:

http://flowstoners.com/quilcom

Article just turns into blatant spam for a Sonos Soundbar about 3/4 of the way through.

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Last week, I tried the Sonos Arc...

At $900, the Sonos Arc is pricey. But it’s one of the few soundbars on the market with a speech enhancer, a button that can be pressed in the Sonos app...

[etc]

In conclusion

The Sonos Arc soundbar was helpful for hearing dialogue without the speech enhancer turned on most of the time...

"Call of Duty: Warzone could not be more different from Defendant's game, a low-budget, niche virtual board game like Hasbro's Risk," the complaint said. "Indeed, it is inconceivable that any member of the public could confuse the two products or believe that they are affiliated with or related to each other."

Sounds like the defendant should change his product's name to "Call of Duty: Warzone".

After all, "it is inconceivable that any member of the public could confuse the two products or believe that they are affiliated with or related to each other."

My quick test of DeepSpeech, as posted on Facebook back in April:

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I just ran a speech-to-text converter on a very clear clip of former Doctor Who actor Tom Baker talking in an interview.

The DeepSpeech converter uses the very latest AI deep-learning advancements to 'listen' to the audio and output the spoken words as text.

After 3 long minutes of running it on a 30-second clip, it printed out its interpretation:

"hooloomooloo how booboorowie i have a honeymoon"

These might be too far off the beaten track for you, being non-standard languages with full game library systems, but Mark Sibly's Monkey2 (discontinued for lack of support) is a complex transpiler project written in a very read-friendly language:

https://github.com/blitz-research/monkey2/tree/develop/src/m...

... and one of his previous languages, BlitzMax, is continued by others today as BlitzMaxNG, and it uses a frequently-updated transpiler based off the former/similar Monkey language:

https://github.com/bmx-ng/bcc

Again, easy to read, and the principles are the same for almost any language.

Downloadable distros:

https://blitzresearch.itch.io/monkey2 https://blitzmax.org/

Targets include Windows x86/64, Mac, Linux, Android and HTML5... among others!

I find their results pretty abysmal, like ALL modern search engines -- particularly in terms of returning irrelevant results that don't even contain my specific search terms, so you're definitely not the only one!

I think they're all scared of having to simply say "we couldn't find anything that matches what you specifically asked for... or was even close".