The huge variety of unique flavors in coffee from different origins is quite amazing and even now just beginning to be explored. You can now create specific flavors in real time by roasting, grinding and brewing every cup robotically with advanced algorithms at www.sevacoffee.com
That machine is very interesting! If you own one of them, would you mind sharing how roast chamber works? I've thought a bit about how that could be done in a fully-automated fashion, but I'm curious to see what solution they came up with.
Roasting immediately before brewing is not a great idea.
I've been roasting my own beans for 20 years, and one of the first things I learned is that hardly any beans are at their best right after roasting. Freshly roasted is OK, but the beans are outgassing for some time after that. 2-3 days rest after roasting improves the flavor of just about any coffee, especially the fruity dry process Ethiopians I like.
Feel free to email me (address in profile) if you'd like to talk about home roasting - always happy to kick it around with anyone interested.
Also visit https://www.sweetmarias.com/ for lots of information about green coffee and roasting, grinding, and brewing equipment. (I am not affiliated with them at all, just a long time customer.)
There are a few IOS apps that do this in real time. The best one by far is 'Voice Dream' and they use the same voices. It is basically and audiobook in your pocket anytime, anywhere for any text file and shows the words as it is reading back, start/stop/pause, adjust speed, change voice, etc etc. All around awesome. When the new google voices or equivalent make it to IOS, it will be almost human-like.
This is a good example of a tool that was created for the accessibility community (vision impaired, dyslexic) and has subsequently been adopted by mainstream readers.
Once I had the fortune to meet and be interviewed by John Young for a position. He was a pioneer in space travel and led humanity forward, yet he was most humble and self effacing in person. It has been many years, but that short period still stands out for his grace and kindness.
May he rise in peace.
And hope that humanity builds on his legacy to explore farther and faster.
