Geez Tony, if you'd bother to read the Wikipedia article it would tell you.
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The voice synthesizer, which has an American accent, is of a model that is no longer produced. Asked why he has still kept it after so many years, Hawking mentioned that he has not heard a voice he likes better and because he identifies with it. Hawking is said to be looking for a replacement since, other than being obsolete, the synthesizer, a DECtalk DTC01 is now considered large and fragile but as of present, finding a software alternative has been difficult. During a lecture in Hong Kong in June 2006, he joked that if he got a new one with a French accent, his wife would divorce him.
Oh, and even my mum knows who he is and what he sounds like. That being the case, I can't imagine there's anyone who doesn't know who he is and so Seth is only joking with us.
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