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From http://iq.intel.co.uk/how-intel-keeps-stephen-hawking-talking/ http://iq.intel.co.uk/how-intel-keeps-stephen-hawking-talkin... > Professor Hawking has b

From http://iq.intel.co.uk/how-intel-keeps-stephen-hawking-talking/ http://iq.intel.co.uk/how-intel-keeps-stephen-hawking-talkin... > Professor Hawking has been using his new software for several months while > Lama and her team have been debugging and fine-tuning it. It’s almost > finished, and when it is, Intel plans to make the system available to the > open source community.

k-mcgrady 12y ago
Great! Thanks for finding that.
bitwize 12y ago
Interesting. It says Hawking would rather stick to his old system than switch to a new one, which conflicts with reports I read like a year ago that suggested he was interested in a direct brain interface. But perhaps it's not so surprising. He's old, and past a certain age you just don't have time to relearn everything. Your time is better spent squeezing the juice out of what you have.
- k-mcgrady 12y ago
  >> "It says Hawking would rather stick to his old system than switch to a new one" Huh? The quote you're replying to says he "has been using his new software for several months". Am I missing something? Is he switching back after testing? I know that he doesn't ever plan on changing the 'voice' as it has become known as his own voice but I don't see why he would test new software and then not use it. To test it you will have to learn it.
  - Someone 12y ago
    Three years ago, he was looking for an assistant. http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/29/2668408/stephen-hawking-technical-assistant-speech-system http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/29/2668408/stephen-hawking-t... states that, at the time, his computer was running Windows XP, so he definitely wasn't on the bleeding edge. However, that has changed a bit; he upgraded to Windows 7 (http://www.hawking.org.uk/the-computer.html http://www.hawking.org.uk/the-computer.html)
  - bitwize 12y ago
    His system still uses the cheek trigger and still works more or less the same way, but improvements have been made to its word prediction and other details of its operation.

k-mcgrady 12y ago

Great! Thanks for finding that.

bitwize 12y ago

Interesting. It says Hawking would rather stick to his old system than switch to a new one, which conflicts with reports I read like a year ago that suggested he was interested in a direct brain interface. But perhaps it's not so surprising. He's old, and past a certain age you just don't have time to relearn everything. Your time is better spent squeezing the juice out of what you have.

k-mcgrady 12y ago
>> "It says Hawking would rather stick to his old system than switch to a new one" Huh? The quote you're replying to says he "has been using his new software for several months". Am I missing something? Is he switching back after testing? I know that he doesn't ever plan on changing the 'voice' as it has become known as his own voice but I don't see why he would test new software and then not use it. To test it you will have to learn it.
- Someone 12y ago
  Three years ago, he was looking for an assistant. http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/29/2668408/stephen-hawking-technical-assistant-speech-system http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/29/2668408/stephen-hawking-t... states that, at the time, his computer was running Windows XP, so he definitely wasn't on the bleeding edge. However, that has changed a bit; he upgraded to Windows 7 (http://www.hawking.org.uk/the-computer.html http://www.hawking.org.uk/the-computer.html)
- bitwize 12y ago
  His system still uses the cheek trigger and still works more or less the same way, but improvements have been made to its word prediction and other details of its operation.