Some people collect stamps. Others collect porcelain miniatures. [David Viens] collects voice synthesizers and their ROMs. In this video, he just got his hands on the ultra-rare Electronic Voice Alert ...

Recorded on October 11, 2011. Screenwriter and film critic Roger Ebert uses a voice synthesizer developed by a Scottish company which custom-tailors text-to-speech software for voiceless customers.

Like artificial intelligence, speech synthesis was one of those applications that promised to revolutionize computing in the 1980s, only to fizzle out after people realized that a robotic voice ...