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Stephen Hawking's speech tech released by Intel
Software that helps Prof Stephen Hawking to speak via a computer has been published online by Intel, the company that created it. The program interprets visual signals and translates them into words, which are then "spoken" by a machine. Intel originally developed the technology specially for Prof Hawking, but it has been used by other sufferers of motor neurone disease (MND).
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Here there is a link to the story of the development of the software. I didn't know it was later developed by Intel.
@fractal -- added that as a 'related link' for ya.