From thatcat Sent Mon, Nov 30th 1998, 22:00
From thatcat Sent Mon, Nov 30th 1998, 22:00
> >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... ..