Roger Ebert just posted this about his efforts to recover his ability to communicate orally.   When I first heard that he lost his ability to speak, I immediately thought of Stephen Hawking’s Speak-n-Spell robot voice.

But they’ve made huge leaps forward in computer-generated speech synthesis.  Roger realized that, using professional-grade audio recordings of how his voice used to sound, some audio-engineers might be able to re-synthesize his own voice.

IN his own voice.

And that’s exactly what they’ve done: Hello, this is me speaking :: rogerebert.com :: People.