2011年4月26日 星期二

Roger Ebert: Remaking my voice


Roger Ebert is a film critic who has lost his lower jaw and his ability to speak due to cancer. He is aided by Apple's Voice System Alex and his friend with wife, to share how he has live with the disease.


You all know the test for artificial intelligence -- the Turing test. A human judge has a conversationwith a human and a computer. If the judge can't tell the machine apart from the human, the machine has passed the test. I now propose a test for computer voices -- the Ebert test. If a computer voice can successfully tell a joke and do the timing and delivery as well as Henny Youngman, then that's the voice I want.

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