Show Robot Voice Machine Seen as Speech Aid Sir Richard Paget inventor of a machine that talks seems to have confused contused for a time his inventive genius and his ultimate goal but butout butout butout out of his works may come in the end an nn improvement in methods of human speech His machine feeds air through a tube to various mouth mouth- mouthpieces mouthpieces pieces and by pressing the bellows with his foot and placing a thumb before the orifices he makes the ap ap- apparatus apparatus utter a few simple words All AU right so far but it Is the hard hard- hardest hardest est way to talk ever demonstrated with success On the other hand Sir Richard philosophizes philosophizes' that culturally hu hUe human hUeman hu- hu human man speech is thousands of years behind the times He lie notes that speech Is the natural result of gestures gestures tures of the mouth and Jaws capa capa- capable c capable pa- pa pable ble of variations but that the upper arm forearm wrists and fin fin- fingers fingers gers together can make gestures tures To complicate speech by sign language would generally annoy all aU except tourists In a strange land but the talking machine has a mis mis- mission mission sion if finally perfected Radio for example would be be- become become come more popular If It all announce announce- announcements announcements announcements ments were broadcast by a robot voice All AU would sound alike aUke no peculiar hates would be attached to voices under general classifications of silly raucous nasal flippant guttural or Elimination of vocal personality cannot be at at- attained tamed by transcription but a me me- mechanical mechanical voice could do the trick |