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Tuesday, March 02, 2010

This is such an absolutely cool and wonderful use of technology...and helpful, too

Roger Ebert gets ‘voice’ grandkids recognize: Programmers used movie commentary tracks to capture critic’s voice

Roger Ebert, the film critic, lost his voice when he had cancer surgery. He communicates through typing into a program that turns his text to speech. But a Scottish company went and sampled commentaries he made for DVDs and managed to program the voice to sound enough like Ebert to be recognisable.

Related: With no voice, Roger Ebert still communicates: Famed film critic lost ability to speak after numerous cancer surgeries

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