From Esquire: "Roger Ebert: The Essential Man"

Ebert grabs his tray and laptop and taps out a few words before he presses a button and speakers come to life.

"What else can go wrong?" the voice says.

The voice is called Alex, a voice with a generic American accent and a generic tone and no emotion. At first Ebert spoke with a voice called Lawrence, which had an English accent. Ebert liked sounding English, because he is an Anglophile, and his English voice reminded him of those beautiful early summers when he would stop in London with Chaz on their way home after the annual chaos of Cannes. But the voice can be hard to decipher even without an English accent layered on top of it — it is given to eccentric pronunciations, especially of names and places — and so for the time being, Ebert has settled for generic instead.

From Esquire: "Roger Ebert: The Essential Man"

It's really a well-done article about a compelling subject. That Ebert has been able to bear up, and even flourish, creatively, in a situation that would cause many of us to buckle is quite inspiring.

Edited to add: Ebert's response to the article