Roger Ebert Premieres His New MacBook Voice
This is absolutely great. Film critic Roger Ebert is premiering his new computer voice on Oprah this afternoon. Below is a sneak peek. His new voice — spoken by his MacBook — actually sounds like him. He looks really delighted with it.
“In first grade they said I talked too much, and now I still can,” he says, grinning.
Ebert lost his voice box after years of cancer treatments. He used to speak with “Alex,” the robotic voice built into OS X. His new voice was created by CereProc, a company in Scotland that recreated it from hours of Ebert’s TV shows and DVD commentaries.
Via Videogum and Daring Fireball.
Leander Kahney is the editor and publisher of Cult of Mac, and author of three books about technology culture: 
