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Jamie Dupree is a radio reporter with Cox Media Group in the US, for WSB: and two years ago he lost his voice.
As a story on the BBC will tell you… he’s got it back. Kind of. A company based in Scotland has sampled his voice from a set of recordings: and he’s now back filing full reports for the company with the aid of voice synthesis.
The technology isn’t 100% perfect, but it’s certainly well on the way; and that’s - of course - interesting to radio.
If consistency is one thing that makes radio work - and most radio programmers agree - then it’s an obvious next step to have not just consistent music but consistent radio ...
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