Stephen Hawkings voice synthesizer - Amiga, 'Say'

[Guest2]

I wasnt sure where to post this

As a child I rememer using a program on my Amiga 500 called 'Say'
This program was build into a Workbench 1.3 disk.
I would have hours of fun using the Amiga to say random phrases in a robot like voice.

Anyway, it looks as if Stephen Hawking used the same program for his voice which I never know!

The following youtube video even shows the program with -m -p75 (male, pitch 75) at 35 seconds in...
However it also states he uses a seperate synthesizer 'made by speech plus'

I dug out my Amiga along with Workbench 1.3 and guess what, Mr Hawking is back!

Can anyone dispute this as I cannot for the life of me find online that Workbench 'Say' was used by him for his voice. I did however find an post on a forum where people said 'Say' was removed from later versions of Workbench because of 'A change in licensing' My guess is Stephen Hawking paid for the rights to it and removed it from future Workbench versions

 

[Guest2]

You might know already, but you might be better off asking over at the English Amiga Board.

I have know idea the answer but the voice has been used loads over the years, adverts etc. Why buy the rights, for profit or protect your image.

Thanks, will have a look there