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Contributed to software used by Stephen Hawking?

I just happened to be looking at the older version of Stephen Hawking's website, and on the page about his accessibility equipment it mentions a software emulation of his speech synthesis (which was originally a DECtalk unit) running on a RasPi 3, and Byuu is one of the credited people involved (probably on the software end?). If they were indeed involved, this would be a neat thing to add to the page if some better coverage can be found. Here's the page I was looking at. MrAureliusR_{Yell at me!} 21:22, 18 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Aha, did some more digging, and the software emulation of his speech synthesizer used part of higan to emulate a strange, old NEC DSP chip, hence why Byuu was credited. I think this could definitely be mentioned, though this is a primary source Hawking's Voice MrAureliusR_{Yell at me!} 21:58, 18 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

At the time they had posted an article about how it worked, but like most of the stuff in various iterations of their site it's probably long lost. Salvadorp2001 (talk) 22:04, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Also mentioned here which is not (I think) a primary source: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/The-Silicon-Valley-quest-to-preserve-Stephen-12759775.php Salvadorp2001 (talk) 22:06, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Im pretty sure "doxed" is spelt "doxxed" Hyperdogsandjuices (talk) 02:59, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: It can be spelled either way. Day Creature (talk) 04:31, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]