Stephen Hawking's voice. Would he want it back? Message #1 Posted by Michael Meyer on 18 May 2010, 12:10 p.m.
I bought a Panasonic Compuvoice talking calculator from TOS for 5 USD. The seller had posted a You Tube video of it, and it sounded just like Stephen Hawking's voice, which I found somewhat amusing. I've been showing it off as, "Stephen Hawking's calculator". Then, I happened to watch the middle of an interview on You Tube where he was asked about his voice. He said that it was an older speech synthesizer from 1986 (the calculator is 1981-1984) and that he has come to identify with it as his own voice, so he's never changed it. He says the hardware is old, fragile, and not easily replaceable. I wonder if he'd have any use for the circuits in the calculator?
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