Intel will help Stephen Hawking speak faster
Unfortunately, Stephen Hawking's speech speed has deteriorated over the years due to the degenerative disease of motor neurons, with which he has been fighting for 50 years. Now one of the greatest geniuses of modern times is able to pronounce only 1 word per minute through a speech synthesizer. However, Intel is developing for the scientist a new interface that will allow him to increase his speech speed to 5-10 words per minute.
Hawking's synthesizer was originally made in the form of a lever on the chair with which he chose the letters on the computer screen. Later, he was put on the glasses infrared sensor, so that the professor began to choose the letters with his eyes. It is becoming increasingly difficult to do this, so a 71-year-old physicist in 2011 turned to Intel co-founder Gordon Moore asking if Intel could help him upgrade and install a more efficient system.
Intel technical director Justin Rattner (Justin Rattner) said that the new Hawking synthesizer can use not only the choice of letters to enter words, but also the scientist's facial expression. There is an option to put two levers, and then the scientist will be able to give a signal in Morse code, which will also be a “big step forward,” Rattner said. The interface of the words + synthesizer itself will be better, the word prediction engine has also been improved.
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Intel has been helping Stephen Hawking with a choice of computer hardware since 1997, when Gordon Moore noticed that Stephen was using a computer on an AMD processor . Since then, Intel has been doing a free upgrade of Hawking computers every two years, now it has a brand new Core i7. In total, the scientist's IT team includes three people, including Intel employee Rob Uetherly (Rob Weatherly, in the photo in the middle).
Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with a degenerative motor neuron disease at the age of 21, with a survival of no more than three years. Stephen Hawking did not justify the forecast: on January 8, he was 71 years old, and he is full of vitality .
Hawking's synthesizer was originally made in the form of a lever on the chair with which he chose the letters on the computer screen. Later, he was put on the glasses infrared sensor, so that the professor began to choose the letters with his eyes. It is becoming increasingly difficult to do this, so a 71-year-old physicist in 2011 turned to Intel co-founder Gordon Moore asking if Intel could help him upgrade and install a more efficient system.
Intel technical director Justin Rattner (Justin Rattner) said that the new Hawking synthesizer can use not only the choice of letters to enter words, but also the scientist's facial expression. There is an option to put two levers, and then the scientist will be able to give a signal in Morse code, which will also be a “big step forward,” Rattner said. The interface of the words + synthesizer itself will be better, the word prediction engine has also been improved.
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Intel has been helping Stephen Hawking with a choice of computer hardware since 1997, when Gordon Moore noticed that Stephen was using a computer on an AMD processor . Since then, Intel has been doing a free upgrade of Hawking computers every two years, now it has a brand new Core i7. In total, the scientist's IT team includes three people, including Intel employee Rob Uetherly (Rob Weatherly, in the photo in the middle).
Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with a degenerative motor neuron disease at the age of 21, with a survival of no more than three years. Stephen Hawking did not justify the forecast: on January 8, he was 71 years old, and he is full of vitality .
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/166403/
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