British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who in 1940 had said, "The fighters are our salvation but the bombers alone provide the means of victory, " was so shocked by the extent of the annihilation that he issued a memo criticizing the "acts of terror and wanton destruction, however impressive" and in his VE Day speech at the end of the war scarcely mentioned Bomber Command.

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That speech might have been his most impressive showing of the week, as Marchionne went all Renaissance Man on his crowd of accomplished women including U.S. Sen.

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Rogers walked us through an impressive demonstration of iListen, launching numerous applications with speech commands from the command mode.

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This isn't just another text-to-speech demo though, StorEbook uses the impressive and appropriately named library of sampled phonemes to speak in unique, realistic voices for each character.

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