But anywho, it turns out that just putting in the URL of a blog or news site more often than not gets us the result we want: the textual content of that page converted to an audio file.

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The watermark, Dr Venter says, includes a cipher which contains the URL of a website and three quotations, if you can work out how to decode it.

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