> [NYT]
>
>July 31, 2001
>Software Is Called Capable of Copying Any Human Voice
>
>By LISA GUERNSEY
>
>AT&T (news/quote) Labs will start selling speech software that it says
>is so good at reproducing the sounds, inflections and intonations of a
>human voice that it can recreate voices and even bring the voices of
>long-dead celebrities back to life. The software, which turns printed
>text into synthesized speech, makes it possible for a company to use
>recordings of a person's voice to utter things that the person never
>actually said.
You can demo this thing at <http://www.naturalvoices.att.com/demos/index.html>. They've got a way to go yet.
Doug