I've seen something on tv about hawking's speech system and we saw the
screen, it definitely looked like a DOS program. Hawking controls it with a
single button (!), deciding what to say when a rotating cursor passes over
his choice. It's probably kinda long when you ask him something and he has
to "program" a sentence...
BTW, isnt Hawking's voice what Pink Floyd used on Keep Talking?
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De : ..... <thatcat@ix.netcom.com>
À : idm@hyperreal.org <idm@hyperreal.org>
Date : 30 novembre, 1998 17:17
Objet : Re: (idm) Apple Mac voice in Plaid's "Milh" - What does it say?
quoted 7 lines it's definitely the mac's speech manager using the "whisper" voice>
>> >it's definitely the mac's speech manager using the "whisper" voice
>> >setting (same one as the ventolin credits and at the end of that warp
>> >blech cd)...as for what it's saying, it's pretty long and
>> >involved...maybe someone with a lot of free time could transcribe it...?
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>> I dunno, Stephen Hawking has Lougherigs (?) disease and he can't talk so
he
quoted 3 lines talks through a computer, picking words and phrase with his hand and the>> talks through a computer, picking words and phrase with his hand and the
>> computer onboard his wheelchair plays it, hence a very computer-like
>> voice...you should rent the movie, you'd see what I'm talking
about...again,
quoted 1 line I never checked out what was said so it might not be...but it did sound>> I never checked out what was said so it might not be...but it did sound
like
quoted 12 lines someone talking about the same material that he covers in his book...>> someone talking about the same material that he covers in his book...
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>i've seen hawking on tv before, and the computer voice sounded different
>from the mac whisper voice (which is definitely what is on the plaid
>track)...it's possible that recently hawking has been using a mac with
>speech manager, but i think that's unlikely as the computer he used to
>speak on tv seemed pretty integrated with the wheelchair, so it's
>probably a proprietary system...
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