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July 30th, 2003

Jimmy Stewart to read your e-books?

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Check out some new voice synthesis technology from IBM. “US Male Voice 2″ is much less robotic than some of his predecessors in the synthesis world and in fact sounds a bit like Jimmy Stewart, if you go by the pauses. Sooner or later will Netfolks and Hollywood fight over such issues as unauthorized use of celebrity voices for reading e-books?

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