Re: (idm) Apple Mac voice in Plaid's "Milh" - What does it say?
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I went to see Stephen Hawking speak when he gave a guest lecture on his
Theory of Everything this past year at my school, and they projected the
interface he uses on the screen behind him for the audience to look at.
It was an old-looking system, and yes, it IS very slow; Dr. Hawking only
took 4 questions from the audience and it took him him over five minutes
to compose answers of only a few sentences. But apparently he's very
comfortable with the system AND the voice is now recognized as "his" so
he doesn't want to change it, despite current improvements in voice
synthesis technology. I guess this was a little off-topic. sorry.
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Frédéric Fournier wrote:
quoted 9 lines I've seen something on tv about hawking's speech system and we saw the>
> 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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