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<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/roger_ebert_remaking_my_voice.html">Roger Ebert's appearance at TED conference 2011</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Adam Ostrow (March 5, 2011). "Roger Ebert's Inspiring Digital Transformation". Mashable Entertainment. Retrieved 2011-09-12. With the help of his wife, two colleagues and the Alex-equipped MacBook that he uses to generate his computerized voice, famed film critic Roger Ebert delivered the final talk at the TED conference on Friday in Long Beach, California.... <a href="http://mashable.com/2011/03/05/roger-ebert-ted-talk/" target="_blank">http://mashable.com/2011/03/05/roger-ebert-ted-talk/</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>JENNIFER 8. LEE (March 7, 2011). "Roger Ebert Tests His Vocal Cords, and Comedic Delivery". The New York Times. Retrieved 2011-09-12. Now perhaps, there is the Ebert Test, a way to see if a synthesized voice can deliver humor with the timing to make an audience laugh.... He proposed the Ebert Test as a way to gauge the humanness of a synthesized voice.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) <a href="https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/07/roger-ebert-tests-his-vocal-cords-and-comedic-delivery/?src=me" target="_blank">https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/07/roger-ebert-tests-his-vocal-cords-and-comedic-delivery/?src=me</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"Roger Ebert's Inspiring Digital Transformation". Tech News. March 5, 2011. Archived from the original on March 25, 2011. Retrieved 2011-09-12. Meanwhile, the technology that enables Ebert to "speak" continues to see improvements – for example, adding more realistic inflection for question marks and exclamation points. In a test of that, which Ebert called the "Ebert test" for computerized voices, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110325160035/http://www.tips-tricks.co.in/2011/03/roger-eberts-inspiring-digital.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20110325160035/http://www.tips-tricks.co.in/2011/03/roger-eberts-inspiring-digital.html</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Adam Ostrow (March 5, 2011). "Roger Ebert's Inspiring Digital Transformation". Mashable Entertainment. Retrieved 2011-09-12. With the help of his wife, two colleagues and the Alex-equipped MacBook that he uses to generate his computerized voice, famed film critic Roger Ebert delivered the final talk at the TED conference on Friday in Long Beach, California.... <a href="http://mashable.com/2011/03/05/roger-ebert-ted-talk/" target="_blank">http://mashable.com/2011/03/05/roger-ebert-ted-talk/</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Alex_Pasternack (Apr 18, 2011). "A MacBook May Have Given Roger Ebert His Voice, But An iPod Saved His Life (Video)". Motherboard. Archived from the original on September 6, 2011. Retrieved 2011-09-12. He calls it the "Ebert Test," after Turing's AI standard... <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110906063605/http://motherboard.tv/2011/4/18/a-macbook-may-have-given-roger-ebert-his-voice-but-an-ipod-saved-his-life-video" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20110906063605/http://motherboard.tv/2011/4/18/a-macbook-may-have-given-roger-ebert-his-voice-but-an-ipod-saved-his-life-video</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>JENNIFER 8. LEE (March 7, 2011). "Roger Ebert Tests His Vocal Cords, and Comedic Delivery". The New York Times. Retrieved 2011-09-12. Now perhaps, there is the Ebert Test, a way to see if a synthesized voice can deliver humor with the timing to make an audience laugh.... He proposed the Ebert Test as a way to gauge the humanness of a synthesized voice.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) <a href="https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/07/roger-ebert-tests-his-vocal-cords-and-comedic-delivery/?src=me" target="_blank">https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/07/roger-ebert-tests-his-vocal-cords-and-comedic-delivery/?src=me</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Jones, Chris. "Roger Ebert: The Essential Man". Esquire magazine. February 16, 2010] <a href="http://www.esquire.com/features/roger-ebert-0310" target="_blank">http://www.esquire.com/features/roger-ebert-0310</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>JENNIFER 8. LEE (March 7, 2011). "Roger Ebert Tests His Vocal Cords, and Comedic Delivery". The New York Times. Retrieved 2011-09-12. Now perhaps, there is the Ebert Test, a way to see if a synthesized voice can deliver humor with the timing to make an audience laugh.... He proposed the Ebert Test as a way to gauge the humanness of a synthesized voice.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) <a href="https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/07/roger-ebert-tests-his-vocal-cords-and-comedic-delivery/?src=me" target="_blank">https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/07/roger-ebert-tests-his-vocal-cords-and-comedic-delivery/?src=me</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>Ebert, Roger (14 December 2012). "Hello, this is me speaking | Interviews | Roger Ebert". www.rogerebert.com. <a href="https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/hello-this-is-me-speaking" target="_blank">https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/hello-this-is-me-speaking</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>Tucker, Ken. "'Oprah': Roger Ebert predicts the Oscars, movingly: 'No more surgery for me'". Entertainment Weekly. March 2, 2010 <a href="/wiki/Ken_Tucker" target="_blank">/wiki/Ken_Tucker</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>