Ray Kurzweil is one of the more intelligent people out there. An inventor and polymath.
This is a trailer for a movie about him -- looks really interesting:
I have two of his synthesizers -- computers that process music rather than bits of light on a screen. A twenty year old design but still incredibly powerful and versatile.
He initially made reading machines for the blind. A scanner and speech synthesizer with a mini-computer running some software. Stevie Wonder was one of his customers and he asked Ray if the speech synthesizer could do music as well as speech. A new industry was born...
Posted by DaveH at February 26, 2009 2:07 PM
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