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You know, the spooky thing is that I'm never sure when C20 is serious about these things. As spurk and RibRdb pointed out, I was joking this time. It's kind of like saying it'd be easier to get into space if we just built space elevators; the tech's all available, but the time and manpower involved would be _far_ more than just getting the original voice actors, or a good approximation.
If I were to get such a system perfected, I think the NSA, CIA, and numerous other countries' Intelligence agencies would want to have a chat with me (behind closed doors; a lot of them). Such tech would have much abusive potential.
festival would be an option if the voice actors weren't around, but festival's voices aren't easy to get right (although you can fool them into saying things that sound the way you want by misspelling them: linux -> linucks, iPAQ->eye pack). You could specifically tweak a voice to sound good for the two or three sentences that you need, and terrible on everything else.
Novus probably has the best option of them all: get PR3 to say the line about 20-30 times, then send the sound files to the Music remix team, who I assume have the sound editing tools that can make the voice a perfect fit with the originals.
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