Roger Ebert Speaks Again

Despite losing his voice to throat cancer, movie critic Roger Ebert is speaking words once again.

Aided by a new state of the art computer voice system, Ebert can once again omit words through his fingers on his keyboard.

The sound coming from his computer is actually his own voice, derived from the thousands of DVD critiques he has given over the years.

He was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2002, and has since undergone numerous surgeries and some near life ending complications from those surgeries.

He has since lost the ability to physically speak, eat or drink, and is fed through a feeding tube.

He is very happy to have the chance to speak again, and says it is nice to hear his own voice.

“Yes, ‘Roger Jr.’ needs to be smoother in tone and steadier in pacing, but the little rascal is good. To hear him coming from my own computer made me ridiculously happy,” Ebert wrote.

“It’s nice to think of all these great movies sloshing around and coming out as my voice.”

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