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Someone clarify because I'm confused. I thought there were newer alternatives with better hardware but Hawkings wanted to keep his old system. How does giving w

Someone clarify because I'm confused. I thought there were newer alternatives with better hardware but Hawkings wanted to keep his old system. How does giving way his system help when there are better implementations out there?

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tmottabr 9y ago
He refused new voice synths because the voice in the newer implementations were different enough that he would not consider his voice. They eventually found the master from his voice and developed a new synth in software that run in a raspberry pi that he was using since jan 2018. the only thing they kept was the voice synth, everything else was replaced. What was developed by intel and made open source was the software he use to interact with the computer named acat [1] [1] https://01.org/acat https://01.org/acat
knight17 9y ago
Hawkins wanted to keep the familiar voice he has been using. He did not want it replaced with 'better' voices because he came to identify strongly with the voice. They (Intel?) replaced the hardware and software with a better system, called Assistive Context-Aware Toolkit (ACAT). It allowed him to use computer easily (compared to the old system) [0]: The new Intel user interface operates like an engine. A sensor mounted on Hawking's cheek is detected by an infrared switch attached to his glasses, helping Hawking select a character on his computer. A customized version of the popular SwiftKey app has greatly improved the system's ability to predict his next characters, words and actions so he only has to type the first few characters of a word. That information is relayed to his speech synthesizer. To search the Web, for example, Hawking previously had to take lengthy routes: Exit from a communication window, navigate a mouse to run the browser, navigate the mouse again to the search bar, and finally type the search text. The new system automates all of these steps seamlessly and quickly. [0] : https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/12/02/intel-hawking-tool/18822665/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/12/02/intel-hawking...

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tmottabr 9y ago

He refused new voice synths because the voice in the newer implementations were different enough that he would not consider his voice. They eventually found the master from his voice and developed a new synth in software that run in a raspberry pi that he was using since jan 2018. the only thing they kept was the voice synth, everything else was replaced. What was developed by intel and made open source was the software he use to interact with the computer named acat [1] [1] https://01.org/acat https://01.org/acat

knight17 9y ago

Hawkins wanted to keep the familiar voice he has been using. He did not want it replaced with 'better' voices because he came to identify strongly with the voice. They (Intel?) replaced the hardware and software with a better system, called Assistive Context-Aware Toolkit (ACAT). It allowed him to use computer easily (compared to the old system) [0]: The new Intel user interface operates like an engine. A sensor mounted on Hawking's cheek is detected by an infrared switch attached to his glasses, helping Hawking select a character on his computer. A customized version of the popular SwiftKey app has greatly improved the system's ability to predict his next characters, words and actions so he only has to type the first few characters of a word. That information is relayed to his speech synthesizer. To search the Web, for example, Hawking previously had to take lengthy routes: Exit from a communication window, navigate a mouse to run the browser, navigate the mouse again to the search bar, and finally type the search text. The new system automates all of these steps seamlessly and quickly. [0] : https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/12/02/intel-hawking-tool/18822665/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/12/02/intel-hawking...