Stephen Stanton does an uncanny impression of Roger's voice. At first I thought they were using an audio track from years ago, until he mentioned not being able to speak any longer.
shareIt does sound remarkably like Ebert. Pretty amazing.
shareI'm watching it right now, and hearing the voice was freaky. I had to stop and find out how they did that. Man, Stanton is amazing! I just found his site in a search, and listened his voice clip real.
http://www.stephenstanton.com/voicematch.html
I'm watching it right now, and hearing the voice was freaky. I had to stop and find out how they did that.
I just did a search to see if my city library has an audiobook for Life Itself, and they do. This guy should read the whole book. How freaky would that be.
sharehttp://www.stephenstanton.com/voicematch.htmlHis Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine were almost flawless. Not so much the others, but he did a great job as Roger.
Nope. I sensed it wasn't Ebert from the first lines in the movie. I guess I watched way too much Siskel & Ebert to be fooled.
Still, Mr. Stanton does a decent job. Not taking anything away from his performance.
Same here, I watched way too much Siskel and Ebert not to be able to tell it wasn't his voice. He did do a good job and it didn't distract me. It was a great way to convey Eberts words.
shareI seem to remember Ebert writing about some company that could, at least theoretically, use the thousands of samples of Ebert's voice (from the show and interviews and such) to recreate his voice in such a way that he could use it for his speech instead of generic robot voice #5.
I had assumed they had been able to use previous audio samples to create a track of Ebert "reading" his book out loud. I was surprised to find it was an imitator.
He talked about using samples to recreate his voice during his Ted Talk. Maybe it was only used for him to communicate while he typed conversations.
https://www.ted.com/talks/roger_ebert_remaking_my_voice
I seem to remember Ebert writing about some company that could, at least theoretically, use the thousands of samples of Ebert's voice (from the show and interviews and such) to recreate his voice in such a way that he could use it for his speech instead of generic robot voice #5.
I had assumed they had been able to use previous audio samples to create a track of Ebert "reading" his book out loud. I was surprised to find it was an imitator.
He does a fantastic job! Getting the timbre and pacing right is really something. Shows how amazingly versatile voice actors can be!
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