Stephen Hawking Nasıl Konuşuyor?

If you want to find out how Stephen Hawking talks, keep reading the lines below.

Famous physicist Stephen Hawking, who had ALS MNH, could hardly move any part of his body.

The place where he can move sweat is a small muscle located on his right cheek. So, how does Stephen Hawking speak by using this muscle?

Yes, you heard correctly. Stephen Hawking is able to write and speak through a computer using a small muscle movement on his right cheek.

Of course, what we mean by asking ‘How Does Stephen Hawking Speak?’ here is that the writings he inputs into the computer are heard through speakers using human voice for which speech synthesis has been previously studied.

Thanks to this, Stephen Hawking is able to converse and even give conferences with the help of a program that vocalizes his writings.

One of the most commonly used methods by people with ALS or other physical disabilities today is the EyeNavigator eye-tracking system.

Thanks to this system, our patient can communicate through the computer using only eye movements and has the opportunity to converse with their surroundings.

For example,

Our ALS and physically disabled patients, who previously struggled dozens of times even to express any simple request.

After starting to use our EyeNavigator eye-tracking system, they are able to easily express all kinds of needs, and even make jokes and quips, thereby raising their morale to the highest level again.

With our HeadNavigator head tracking system, which is another similar communication product, it is also possible for a person to communicate and speak through the computer by moving their head, finger, or a similar limb.

Have you ever wondered how Stephen Hawking speaks?

Returning to the question of how Stephen Hawking speaks, today he is able to speak because the muscle in his cheek is functioning.

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Stephen Hawking sends a command to the computer in the style of a mouse click through an infrared switch mounted on his glasses, which touches one of his cheek muscles.

This system is called Single Switch Control. It can also provide mouse control. The texts it writes are also voiced using Speech+, a separate speech device.

If tomorrow he can’t control this muscle in his cheek, he will continue to be able to speak using another part he can control, thanks to us and companies like ours that produce technology for people with disabilities.