1. I wish that the dentist had a keyboard I could type on. I know that most people couldn't use it very effectively, but as a decent touch-typist, I could communicate with him while he's working on me.
2. A number of years ago, a friend told me about his mother who'd had surgery for throat (?) cancer, and can no longer speak normally. He rigged up for her a small (musical) keyboard, with each key corresponding to a phoneme, so she could speak with the synth. At the time he talked about wishing he had audio recordings of her own voice to use. He proposed a "voice bank" that folks could store such recordings for just such a purpose, at a nominal charge.
1. I wish that the dentist had a keyboard I could type on. I know that most people couldn't use it very effectively, but as a decent touch-typist, I could communicate with him while he's working on me.
2. A number of years ago, a friend told me about his mother who'd had surgery for throat (?) cancer, and can no longer speak normally. He rigged up for her a small (musical) keyboard, with each key corresponding to a phoneme, so she could speak with the synth. At the time he talked about wishing he had audio recordings of her own voice to use. He proposed a "voice bank" that folks could store such recordings for just such a purpose, at a nominal charge.