321 Stars: Is that Stephen Hawlking?

Mr. A · Trick Member Joined: 20 Oct 2003 Location: INTERNET

Ok, I noticed something odd when listening to "321 Stars" that I ripped off my Extreme PS2 DVD. Around the middle of the song the singer sings rapidly "3-2-1" and then is a pause in the scoll and a voice says "the stars."

I listened closely, and the voice saying "the stars" seems to sound like the voice synth that Stephen Hawlking (AKA the "wheelchair physicist guy") uses! I could forsee someone using a recording of him saying something like that, this sort of thing has been done before of using things people say (like "Keep Hope Alive" by Crystal Method.)

Has anyone else noticed that or am I loosing my mind?

PS - No MC Hawlking links please.

!!!! · Trick Member Joined: 28 Sep 2003 Location: in a haus lolo!

The voice is pretty clear, although, who knows if it came from Hawking.
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SO! loves Electroplankton · Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 8:39 pm Post subject:

It might be him. After listening to Keep Talking by Pink Floyd(which also samples him), they do seem like very similar voices.

Flarone · Trick Member Joined: 13 Feb 2004

That's not Steven Hawking's voice, you dolts. Steven Hawking cannot speak, so he uses a voice synth program connected to a keyboard. Therefore, his "voice" sounds little different than, let's say, the Macintosh speech program voices.
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Mr. A · Trick Member Joined: 20 Oct 2003 Location: INTERNET

Speaking of dolts, it's not a keyboard. He can only control a single (I think it's just one) button. The screen he has hooked to the synth scans through rows and columns of words and phrases he can say and he selects them by clicking to change the scroll.

clubbinguy · Trick Member Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Location: USA

I could tell what this thread was going to be about by the topic, and I would've laughed my buttocks off, but the misspelling of Hawking somehow totally killed the humor of it for me.

People, learn to spell crap please. The laguage gods have blessed us with a dictionary and the Internet. Use them for something useful for a change. Hit dictionary.com or type it on Google and see if google says "did you mean..." with the correct spelling.

Secksi Chocobo · Trick Member Joined: 13 Jan 2005 Location: EP, MN

Flarone · Trick Member Joined: 13 Feb 2004

I hope that's intentional scarcasm.....

EDIT: Plus, I don't quite see how a dictionary will help one spell Hawking, a proper name, correctly......
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SO! loves Electroplankton · Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 11:19 am Post subject:

I'm totally confused by how Hawking's voice synth works but ok...

Sir_Zebo · Trick Member Joined: 12 Jan 2005 Location: Nevadacity Cali

Its just a robotic voice. I don't think hawking will have the time to say, "The stars." For a game he can never play in his life sorry Stephen.

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Reenee · Trick Member Joined: 21 Nov 2003

*sigh*

I have such a life. An empty one.

So empty, I've recognized the voice as the speech recognition software in Mac OS.

The voice's name is Ralph. Go crazy. I've learned to detect other voices so "cleverly" made by artists when they've resorted to the good ol' Macintosh.

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THE CAPS LOCK on · Trick Member Joined: 08 Dec 2004

You can get voice synthesized Ralph from pc programs. But it sounds too rich of a voice to be Ralph so most likely they just sound edited someone voice. I bet its easier to just sound edit someone voice then record a Accessibility program.

Xp they only gave me "Microsoft Sam" but I can change him into the other voices. Some of those old names were really funny.

Tomo_kun · Trick Member Joined: 26 Oct 2003 Location: SE-WI.

http://www.starterupsteve.com/swf/ddrhawking.html

(This is soo wrong and stupid).. uhm...

Anyway, A lot of music uses an electronic voice like that, like the song Where Its At.
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Julie QQQ...? · Trick Member Joined: 07 Jun 2002 Location: Boston, MA

OhdearGodwhy.

That is so wrong... why am I laughing so hard, though?

SO! loves Electroplankton · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 9:30 pm Post subject:

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