Helping Hawking To Speak
Professor Stephen Hawking is losing what little movement he still has, and Intel is trying to help preserve his speech.
FOX News Radio’s Alastair Wanklyn reports from London:
(Hawking speaking) He controls his voice by twitching a muscle in his cheek. But now that is dying too, thanks to Professor Stephen Hawking’s progressive muscle loss. Chip Maker Intel says it is helping to research a solution. Intel Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner says a research project is currently seeing if facial recognition cameras or maybe brain wave sensors might unlock Hawking’s voice. He was speaking on the sidelines of a conference to mark Hawking’s 70th birthday in the English city of Cambridge this weekend.
In London, Alastair Wanklyn, FOX News Radio.
Editor’s Note: Hawking was not well enough to attend his own birthday celebration.
