Intel has worked on Stephen Hawking’s speech technology for over a decade; the scientist, stricken by motor neuron disease, currently selects letters one by one by twitching his cheek in time to a continually scrolling cursor. But with his condition deteriorating, Hawking can only achieve about a word a minute this way, and recently contacted Intel co-founder Gordon Moore to see if the company would be able to assist. “We’ve built a new, character-driven interface in modern terms that includes a better word predictor.” Speaking to Scientific American , CTO Justin Rattner said that Intel thinks it indeed can do better. Hawking can make other facial expressions, too, which could be used to speed up his speech output — two expressions…

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Intel hopes to boost Stephen Hawking’s speech to ten words per minute

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