Stephen Hawking's New Speech System Is Free and Open-source

nice to see free software growing and helping people!

I wonder if he feels like he's missed a lot by not making a switch earlier.

Anyway, how fast is the new one?

Rad! :D

I don't doubt the "open source" part of the claim, but I seriously doubt the use of "free" is the same as the way we would use it. Intel and Swiftkey are the primary drivers of this. The Intel site has no mention of the ACAT project on their open source and developer portal, Swiftkey doesn't have such a portal that I can find at all. Hawking's own website mentions the software but no link is provided to the code, project, or license.

Without being able to see the license, join the project, and inspect/alter the code it is not free software.