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RE: How do they record the actors for voice response systems
Subject:RE: How do they record the actors for voice response systems From:"Connie Giordano" <connie -at- therightwordz -dot- com> To:"'Technical Writing Plus'" <doc-x -at- earthlink -dot- net>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 1 Apr 2009 11:50:33 -0400
He did pass away, so either Milan is referring to "just" as in "Just Do It"
rather than "recently", or he's got a very clever April Fool's joke
going....
Regards,
Connie Giordano
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Subject: RE: How do they record the actors for voice response systems
Don LaFontaine was known as the 'Voice of God' -- but I thought he died?
Jim Jones akn6z.wordpress.com (Online Mandarin Coaching)
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On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Fred Ridder <docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com> wrote:
> The voice is not an actor. It's synthetic, generated by a
> text-to-speech (TTS) algorithm.
Actually, we just had Don LaFontaine record material for ours. It was
expensive, but very cool. We're going to be so much cooler than our
competitors...
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