Someone correct me if I'm wrong but in addition to the 'whisper' voice on
the Mac there is also one that sounds like Hawking's vocoder thing; in
fact I believe it's even called 'Hawking'...but Warp artists do seem to
have a thing for the 'whisper' voice- it's on the warp-net site!
peace
Nate
On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, ..... wrote:
quoted 23 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...?
> >
> > I dunno, Stephen Hawking has Lougherigs (?) disease and he can't talk so he
> > 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,
> > I never checked out what was said so it might not be....but it did sound like
> > 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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