I discovered that the common filler text "lorem ipsum dolor sit amet" doesn't actually translate to anything meaningful in Latin. It is a garbled version of a classic Cicero text used specifically for typesetting filler.
I learned from Straight Dope that 'lorem ipsum' placeholder text is actually based on a classic speech by Cicero, not just random gibberish. It is a mangled version of his philosophical work De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum.
Eleven hours of Microsoft Speaker Coach data exposed the author's filler words, pacing habits, and “maybe”-driven hypotheses, turning speaking analytics into a self-improvement tool.
I found [V]Host, an interesting text-to-speech web application that lets you embed Flash characters on your site to read text aloud. It offers a unique way to add interactive audio content using animated avatars.
Tamil and Telugu films often fake newspapers, screens, and official documents so sloppily that reading the background text becomes a second layer of comedy.