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Newsbot - Virtual Newscasters

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| 17:22 UK time, Thursday, 16 June 2005

Newsbot takes a Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ RSS feed (or any RSS feed) and turns it into speech read out by an animated avatar.

Ours chatbots can already read RSS feeds to answer questions like "what is the news/weather" but we thought it would be great to shrink-wrap the RSS reading part to create vritual newscasters.

The next stage of development would be to allow users to drill down to individual stories and have those read out too.

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