Technology can be abused, but it sure can be amazing.
As many of you undoubtedly know, film critic Roger Ebert is no longer able to use his vocal chords and has no voice, due to multiple surgeries. For a while he spoke via a computer. According to this Esquire profile, his voice was called Alex—”a voice with a generic American accent and a generic tone and no emotion.”
But Ebert has been so prolific as a speaker—think of his countless spoken reviews and DVD commentaries—that they were able to construct a database using his actual voice.
Watch the video below to see Ebert and his wife Chaz hear his new “voice” for the very first time.
