The new program he uses, however, has a unique feature: it uses Ebert’s voice when converting his text to speech.
Toyota says that Entune will offer the largest number of mobile apps with Bing, iheartradio, MovieTickets.com, OpenTable.com, and Pandora.
Google Translate just announced that it will attempt to improve it’s speech synthesis by using Phonetic Art’s products.
Educators say that AT will be particularly helpful, because students wouldn’t have to be taken out of the classroom and could move at the same pace as other students.
Personally, I like the really old school stuff I listened to as a kid off of actual records, but you it’s true you can’t use speech to control your record player.
Seriously, these kids get $100,000 in scholarship money and lifetime bragging rights.
I can only hope that NYC might take a cue someday, since often subway announcements are usually as audible as adults in a Charlie Brown cartoon.
