That was the tricky part because Chuck's voice is totally different than mine.
The tricky part is enrolling customers in the scheme, as different jurisdictions have their own privacy laws governing voice recording.
In the short term, that means helping parent company Google with tricky challenges like voice and image recognition, while in the next five or ten years, Hassabis says, "ultimately we want to apply these techniques in important real-world problems, from medical diagnostics to climate modelling".
In this case, he successfully walked the tricky tightrope of voicing calm, constant public calls for a quick, peaceful transition while waging a furious behind-the-scenes diplomatic effort to ramp up the pressure on Mubarak to go.
But capturing the voice was tricky.
And some of the pleasures were simple: the airy propulsion of the guitars and cello, the supple (and sometimes tricky) melodies and a voice that stayed irrepressibly playful.
If only someone had taken me aside to break the bad news, or at least pointed me to the Pronunciation Book channel on YouTube, where a man, speaking in a clear, matter-of-fact voice, breaks tricky words down to their component parts.
