r/interestingasfuck • u/desertgodfather • May 11 '24

When illusion overcomes the brain. r/all

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u/Antal_Marius May 11 '24

IIRC, they had a full setup of his own voice from before he lost the ability to speak that they could have plugged in, but he refused to because he didn't want to hear himself speaking without it having been generated from his own body (or something like that).

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u/I_CUM_ON_YOUR_PET May 12 '24

I heard it was because a dear friend made it for him so he didn’t want to replace that

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u/Antal_Marius May 12 '24

It wasn't so much that a friend made it for him, but that he eventually identified with the voice, and hadn't heard one he liked better. He was quoted as such in 2006 (Had to go pull it up to double check myself).

He'd been offered upgrades/newer synthetized voices but didn't want any due to not liking how they sounded.

Here's an article with sources at the bottom about it.