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COMMENTS: Windy City Twang via Edinburgh & Casablanca
Chicago-based Dean Reynolds filed a closer on CBS about Chicago-based movie reviewer Roger Ebert and his appearance on Oprah, the Chicago-based daytime TV talkshow. Reynolds reminded us that Ebert can no longer talk: "That critical voice was silenced four years ago after cancer surgery and while he kept reviewing hundreds of movies, Ebert relied mostly on the printed instead of spoken word." For speaking, he had used the computer-generated voice of a robot--until now. CereProc, a hi-tech outfit in Scotland, has analyzed Ebert's DVDs, including his commentary on Casablanca, to isolate his pronunciation of each of the 45 spoken phonemes that make up the English language. That robot now speaks with Ebert's accent.
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