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What software/hardware is used for his voice? If it is software can it be downloaded? I heard it was made by Mac |
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good luck trying to find it |
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The software he runs (including the voice synthesis) is custom programmed. |
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Maybe I was wrong.... For a time, the only way I could communicate was to spell out words letter by letter, by raising my eyebrows when someone pointed to the right letter on a spelling card. It is pretty difficult to carry on a conversation like that, let alone write a scientific paper. However, a computer expert in California, called Walt Woltosz, heard of my plight. He sent me a computer program he had written, called Equalizer. This allowed me to select words from a series of menus on the screen, by pressing a switch in my hand. The program could also be controlled by a switch, operated by head or eye movement. When I have built up what I want to say, I can send it to a speech synthesizer. At first, I just ran the Equalizer program on a desk top computer. However David Mason, of Cambridge Adaptive Communication, fitted a small portable computer and a speech synthesizer to my wheel chair. This system allowed me to communicate much better than I could before. I can manage up to 15 words a minute. I can either speak what I have written, or save it on disk. I can then print it out, or call it back, and speak it sentence by sentence. Using this system, I have written a book, and dozens of scientific papers. I have also given many scientific and popular talks. They have all been well received. I think that is in a large part due to the quality of the speech synthesizer, which is made by Speech Plus. |
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it's verry special harrdwarre. (orr was at the time) but almost any voice thinggy majiggy can rreplicate it. |
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It runs off the quantum momentum harnessed from the ionized particles contained in a particle accelerator the runs around his belt, and is modiefied by the general field equation mev=-\/pi*o dv/dt- sigma^n-2 |
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any apple notebook can replicate the voice, these days. |
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Not meaning to be funny or anything, but I just realised doing lectures must be really boring for him- he just hits play and then sits there for an hour before answering question :/ |
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Most lectures are really boring though, we had a lecturer that used to record prior to the day and just hit play then sat at the side reading a newspaper. |
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commodore 64 |
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I'd keep asking questions throughout, just to keep him on his toes if he did that :DA group of kids in the year above us used to set up MD recorders on the front desk and come back to collect them at the end of the hour. |
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people do that in my honors class |
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I've got a voice which sounds exactly the same to me, it's on a really old version of Simpletext on some old Mac laptop I've got. |
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the voice from ok computer sounds just like simpletext |
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it is |
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He has the voice... now all he needs is to work his body. Then he can do the 'we are the robots' moves. Kraftwerk! |
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He did guest vocals on OK Computer's "fitter Happier" |
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i thought it was cute he starred in the simpson and the dexter's laboratory tribute (im not sure that was really him) totally kicked ass |
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