Finding his voice
As a coda to last week’s post on the Esquire profile of Roger Ebert, he made a moving appearance on Oprah yesterday test-driving the computer voice being developed by piecing together words from his DVD commentaries to sound like his voice pre-cancer, rather than a standard text-to-speech robot.
“Yes, “Roger Jr.” needs to be smoother in tone and steadier in pacing, but the little rascal is good. To hear him coming from my own computer made me ridiculously happy,” he says on his website.
To see him so happy, active and productive is inspiring.
The video is, of course, up on YouTube.
