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Thursday, August 09, 2001
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/09/technology/circuits/09VOIC.html Behind the Technology That Can Reproduce a Voice FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- JUERGEN SCHROETER, an expert in speech synthesis at AT&T (news/quote) Labs, has a vision of the future. Imagine a booth — much like an instant- photo booth at a Wal-Mart (news/quote) — except this booth takes snapshots of people's voices instead of their faces. A man could walk into the booth, read a hundred sentences and walk out with a program on a CD-ROM that could transform written text into lines of speech uttered in his voice — including words he never said....
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