After some searching, this is the best support I could find:
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In early 2010, Ebert and Chaz announced on the “Oprah Winfrey Show” that they’d enlisted a Scottish company called CereProc to create a computerized voice that more closely resembled Ebert’s own by using snippets of his TV work, DVD commentaries and the like, but that never fully materialized. Alex stayed with him until the end.
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Alex being the Apple TTS voice I mentioned earlier.
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I believe you're mistaken. Here is its debut, and it's pretty amazing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93jREDSWOYY#t=1m23s
Google "Cereproc" and "Roger Ebert" and you'll find that he was quite pleased with it.
After some searching, this is the best support I could find:
--snip
In early 2010, Ebert and Chaz announced on the “Oprah Winfrey Show” that they’d enlisted a Scottish company called CereProc to create a computerized voice that more closely resembled Ebert’s own by using snippets of his TV work, DVD commentaries and the like, but that never fully materialized. Alex stayed with him until the end.
--snip
Alex being the Apple TTS voice I mentioned earlier.
Source: http://voices.suntimes.com/arts-entertainment/the-daily-sizz...