Dalek word power for the voiceless
NZPA London A synthetic voice machine which gives people unable to speak half the wordpower of an average adult has been developed by a team at Coventry Polytechnic. The machine has a vocabulary of 1024 words and in a few seconds disabled persons can call up wbrds, build phrases or use preprogrammed
phrases. Professor Kenneth Stout, who headed the design team, said although the computer-controlled voice “sounds like a Dalek” it was better than being dumb, the “Daily Telegraph” reported. The machine was a big improvement on earlier efforts, which either required the user to type in words and phrases ar had a limited vocabulary.
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Press, 23 February 1987, Page 28
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