News At Seven
<BR>News At Seven is a system that automatically generates a virtual news show. Totally autonomous, it 
<BR>collects, parses, edits and organizes news stories and then passes the formatted content to an 
<BR>artificial anchor for presentation. Using the resources present on the web, the system goes beyond 
<BR>the straight text of the news stories to also retrieve relevant images and blogs with commentary on 
<BR>the topics to be presented.
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<BR>Once it has assembled and edited its material, News At Seven presents it to the audience using a 
<BR>graphical game engine and text-to-speech (TTS) technology in a manner similar to the nightly news 
<BR>watched regularly by millions of Americans. The result is a cohesive, compelling performance that 
<BR>successfully combines techniques of modern news programming with features made by possible only by 
<BR>the fact that the system is, at its core, completely virtual.
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