The Importance of Speech Synthesizer Technology

The importance of speech synthesizer technology to aid people who cannot speak or have lost the ability to speak. Probably the one of the most famous if not the most famous examples of this is of course the speech synthesizer used by theoretical of his Stephen Hawking. And then looking into the future you have situations like James Earl Jones's Darth Vader voice that being sort of archived and prepared for so that in the future you can basically have a machine synthesized version of that voice.