RE: How do they record the actors for voice response systems

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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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