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    Now You Can Get Fortune Cookies on Your iPhone with a Ching Chong voice.

    By Jennifer 8. Lee | September 19, 2009

    A new iPhone app called LuckyFortune now gives you a fortune cookie in your pocket. You can shake it and the cookie rolls around (real video, not CGI, the company said) and breaks to the sound of (of course) a gong.

    Then (yikes) this faux Chinese-y accent comes on and reads your fortune. It definitely doesn’t sound like a native Chinese speaker, just what someone who thinks a native Chinese speaker would sound like in English.


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