Sentence examples for speaking machine from inspiring English sources

Instead of a mechanical system made of a reed and bellows, the Voder generated sounds with electricity; as with Kempelen's speaking machine, a human manipulated keys to produce words.

Darwin was an unstoppable inventor: his futuristic designs included a steam car ("a fiery chariot"); a wire-drawn ferry; a horizontal windmill; an artificial bird; a copying machine and a speaking machine.

In the late eighteenth century, a Hungarian inventor named Wolfgang von Kempelen built a speaking machine by modelling the human vocal tract, using a bellows for lungs, a reed from a bagpipe for the vocal folds, and a keyboard to manipulate the "mouth".

There were attempts to build speaking machines as well.

He also saw some of Mälzel's speaking machines, and Mälzel later presented a demonstration of speaking machines to a researcher and his teenage son.

Alexander Graham Bell obtained a copy of a book by Kempelen on speaking machines after being inspired by seeing a similar machine built by Wheatstone; Bell went on to file the first successful patent for the telephone.

He speaks machine gun-quickly in a soft, mid-Atlantic accent.

This elemental difference in communication creates a usability gap, which we have traditionally bridged by forcing people to learn to "speak" machine — download a new app to control every new device, use this set of wake words or language constructs for one device and an entirely different set for another, update, update, update, and if-this-then-that for everything.

Gary Numan and I Speak Machine.

The witnesses, racketeers, instead of speaking of machine guns, and killings, speak mostly of overhead, capital reserves, and operating costs.

Scientifically speaking, the machine, a BrillianceScope Analyzer, is an imaging spectrophotometer that scans stones.