![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His name was Dennis Klatt.Īs Wired uncovered, Klatt's work was incorporated into one of the first devices that translated speech into text: the DECtalk. SEE ALSO: The world reacts to the death of the much-loved Stephen Hawkingīack in the '80s, when Hawking was first exploring text-to-speech communication options after he lost the power of speech, a pioneer in computer-generated speech algorithms was working at MIT on that very thing. Stephen Hawking's computer-generated voice is so iconic that it's trademarked - The filmmakers behind The Theory of Everything had to get Hawking's personal permission to use the voice in his biopic.īut that voice has an interesting origin story of its own. ![]()
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