LONDON – Can you help make Stephen Hawking’s voice heard?
The famed British physicist is seeking an assistant to help develop and maintain his distinctive computer-assisted speech system.
Requirements posted to the 69-year-old’s website include willingness to travel, computer literacy and the ability to work without the help of an instruction manual or tech support.
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Hawking is known for his pioneering work on black holes, his popular books on cosmology, and his refusal to bow to the disease that left him almost completely paralyzed.
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He suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, which has confined the theoretician to a high-tech wheelchair equipped with an electronic voice synthesizer, which gives Hawking his distinctive robotic monotone.
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