| Show robot voice machine seen as speech aid sir richard paget inventor of a machine that talks seems to have confused for a time his inventive genius and his ultimate goal but out of his works may come in the end an improvement in methods of human speech his machine feeds air through a tube to various mouthpieces and by pressing the bellows with his foot and placing a thumb before the orifices he makes the apparatus utter a few simple words all AH right so far but it is the hardest way to talk ever demonstrated with success on the other hand sir richard philosophizes that culturally human speech is thousands of years behind the times he notes that speech is the natural result of gestures of the mouth and jaws capable of variations but that the upper arm forearm wrists and fingers together can make gestures to complicate speech by sign language would generally annoy all except tourists in a strange land but the talking machine has a mission it if finally perfected radio for example would become comi more popular if all announcements were broadcast by a robot voice all would sound alike no peculiar hates would be attached to voices under general classifications of silly raucous nasal flippant guttural or elimination of vocal personality cannot bo be attained by transcription but a mechanical ch anical voice e could do the trick |
