After decades of communicating via a computerized speech synthesizer, Hawking recently auditioned A-list actors and leaders around the world to temporarily update his voice. (entrepreneur.com)
By decoding patterns in the part of the brain that orchestrates the movement of the lips, tongue, jaw and larynx, the mechanical mind reader — a speech prosthetic — will give these people a voice through a computer - driven speech synthesizer. (discovermagazine.com)
Many software programs have both speech recognition and speech synthesizers built in so students can verbalize what they want written, and the program reads the text back to them. (edutopia.org)