My first encounter with a Kurtzweil text to speech machine (used by blind folks to scan Sci-Fi novels at race horse commentator speed!

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Dr. Nigel Helyer is an internationally prominent sound artist who’s interdisciplinary practice combines art and science to embrace our social, cultural and physical environments.   He brings these concerns together in poetic art projects that prompt the community to engage with their cultural histories, identity and sense of place; inviting us to examine the abstract conditions of our world and our complex relationships to it.
Principal web archive - http://www.sonicobjects.com