Bok
09-13-2011, 04:21 PM
After Roger Ebert lost the ability to speak in 2006 due to a post-cancer surgery tracheostomy, the film critic has communicated via Post-It notes, an eloquent and hilarious array of hand gestures, and his Mac laptop synthesizer. The version that read out pre-typed introductions at his annual film festival in 2009 had an upper-class English accent the British might call "emollient." Ebert and his wife Chaz called it "Sir Laurence" and shortly thereafter replaced it with a more accessible American–accented voice called "Alex." By next year, Ebert may sound even more like himself, courtesy of personalized voice work being carried out by the Edinburgh-based company CereProc (short for cerebral processing and pronounced "serra-prock").
Ebert's extensive media recordings--not the least of which is the long-running TV series At the Movies --had led many people to suggest something like this. In his autobiography, Life Itself: A Memoir (Grand Central Publishing), set to release on September 13, Ebert says the cost was prohibitive until he discovered that CereProc, a specialist in regional accents, had built personalized voices for other individuals. Its Web versions of George W. Bush and Arnold Schwarzenegger, built from found audio samples, seemed promising.
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