Stephen lost the ability to speak but he continued communicating using a voice processor
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Stephen Hawking was regarded as one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists in history. His work on the origins and structure of the universe, from the Big Bang to black holes, revolutionized the field, while his best-selling books have appealed to readers who may not have Hawking's scientific background. Hawking died on March 14, 2018
How Intel gave Hawking his voice.⬇️
.In 1986, aged 44, Hawkings lost his voice to save his life after an attack of pneumonia. For a while, he used a spelling card to communicate, patiently indicating letters and forming words by raising his eyebrows. Although this gave Hawkings the ability to communicate the process was slow. From then on, he spoke through a computer synthesiser on the arm of his wheelchair.
A chance encounter with Gordon Moore, the co-founder of Intel, at a conference in 1997 led to a relationship that would see Intel providing Hawkings with customised PCs and technical support, replacing his computer every 2 years.
Martin King, a physicist who had been working with Hawking on a new communication system, contacted a California-based company called Words Plus, whose computer program Equalizer allowed the user to select words and commands on a computer using a hand clicker. Words Plus CEO Walter Woltosz had created a earlier version of the speech equalizer to her help his mother-in-law who also suffered from ALS.
Equalizer first ran on an Apple II computer linked to a speech synthesizer made by a company called Speech Plus. This system was then adapted by David Mason, the engineer husband of one of Hawking’s nurses, to a portable system that could be mounted on one of the arms of a wheelchair. With this new system, Hawking was able to communicate at a rate of 15 words per minute.
However, the nerve that allowed him to move his thumbs kept degrading. By 2008, Hawking’s hand was too weak to use the clicker. His graduate assistant at the time then devised a switching device called the “cheek switch.” Attached to his glasses, it could detect, via a low infrared beam, when Hawking tensed his cheek muscle. Since then, Hawking has achieved the feat of writing emails, browsing the internet, writing books and speaking using only one muscle. Although this system worked it was still slow… enter SwiftKey. With SwiftKey integrated, the system could learn from Hawking and predict the characters and words he planned to type next based on historical patterns, with this data funnelled through to his speech synthesizer. SwiftKey has also tapped Hawking’s historical works to help it more accurately predict his next words in this bespoke version of the software.
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