Katie Couric 2.0

Choice. Northwestern has developed a system that automatically generates a virtual news show. News At Seven gathers stories from around the internet, does some text-to-speech transfer, displays it using a game engine, and even tosses in some blog commentary. Video demonstration.
10/4/06




Very cool. It would be nice if you could enable captioning for those of us with hearing disabilities. It shouldnt be too hard if youre using text to speech.
»Posted by Todd at 2:22 PM on October 4, 2006



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