From Nate Harrison Sent Mon, Nov 30th 1998, 23:00
From Nate Harrison Sent Mon, Nov 30th 1998, 23:00
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: > > > >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... > > > 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... > > .. >