[darwinwhy]

I have a sudden urge to want to deep fake Steven Hawking's voice. I wonder both how the deep fake tech would handle Stephen Hawking as an input, and I'm just realizing that he just missed the survival threshold for being able to use this tech.

[progman32]

Hawking turned down the use of new voices! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_H._Klatt

[genewitch]

My naive understanding is that he considered the voice he used to be his voice, and had no desire to change it.

I also read some weird teardown of all of the chips and technology used to synthesize that voice a while back and it was very interesting. I'd like to read it again and archive it.