How Roger Ebert Will Get His Voice Back

Years of battling cancer have forget film ubercritic Roger Ebert without a portion of his jaw , and consequentially , his spokesperson . Esquire’ssuperb profileoutlined his travail to regain a voice — his voice — but result us wondering : How will that do work ?

FromEsquire :

Ebert is waiting for a Scotch company called CereProc to give him some of his former voice back . He found it on the cyberspace , where he spends a lot of his time . CereProc sartor school text - to - speech software for unvoiced customer so that they do n’t all have to sound like Stephen Hawking … CereProc is mining Ebert ’s TV tape and videodisk commentary for those Scripture , and the words it can not chance , it will piece together syllable by syllable . When CereProc finishes its work , Roger Ebert wo n’t sound exactly like Roger Ebert again , but he will go more like him than Alex does .

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CereProc is headquarter on the sixth base of an imposingly ugly tower in Edinburgh , Scotland — I’d live , because it was in the five floors below that I drop most of my undergrad career at the University of Edinburgh , which possess the building . By all counting , it ’s a small cognitive operation , and a comparatively new one , started about five days ago .

But I tally into CereProc ’s body of work online , and their sample distribution part sets address for themselves , so to speak ( sorry and no-good ! ): Obama sound like a slightly more hesitant Obama ; Arnie , whose verbal tic are his trademark , sounds like almost precisely like Arnie . ( you’re able to listen to both , and others , hereandhere . ) hear to what they can do with publicly usable vocalism data point sets is inspiriting , so the prospects for a human with such a all-inclusive catalogue of outspoken recordings , from radio receiver broadcast to his TV show to old podcasts , seem wild . He felt the same path when he learn CereProcback in August :

I have my fingerbreadth cut through . I have launched an e - mail to Edinburgh with my solicitation . I can see my own voice host on-line or telecast video essay . I am greatly cheered .

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CereProc got that email , and answered his appeal . So !

The first step would be a desktop software system system , which would order text in the same way that Mac OS does natively . While this would be a great bridge deck , but a peregrine result would really change things . CereProc ’s software is licensable for just about anything , and has already beenincorporatedinto an iPhone app , albeit for dewy-eyed word dictation .

In other word , a voice Ebert is something the he ( and we ! ) can realistically look forward to . And by this , we too are greatly inspire . [ CereProc , Esquire ]

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