Doug is the CEO and one of the founders of OC3 Entertainment, a company that specializes in creating the most realistic animations possible using only an audio recording of a human voice.

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But the team behind Zoe believe they have gone a step further by giving Zoe a range of human emotions expressed in her face and voice.

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"The human voice is the first instrument, " he said in a 2008 interview on National Public Radio.

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Mr. URCOLA: Yeah, yeah, well, I, one of my heroes, one of my favorite musicians, Egberto Gismonti, also Hermeto Pasqual, and they have a lot of their music, they use the human voice in all different kind of ways, you know.

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Also, that we will be willing to fight and stand up for American values, especially when it comes to people around the world, like the Iranian people four years ago who stood up and were fighting for a greater voice in their own affairs and what we value here in America, human rights, and so on.

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