Evan A. Suma, a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Southern California's (USC) Institute for Creative Technologies, immediately set to work in demonstrating that the technology to run such a system already exists.
If you haven't already, search Google for 'kittens' on your Android or iPhone. or, on the web, search for 'Helvetica' (although I think they went way, way too far with that one). but this one from Google Voice is funny: Introducing Voice-alyzer.