Stephen Hawking's Son Puts Swear Words in His Speech Machine

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LONDON:  Stephen Hawking's son has confessed that he used to play pranks on his father by programming swear words into his speech machine.

Tim Hawking, 36, made the confession in an upcoming BBC documentary while admitting that it was only after his father got his synthesised voice that they were able to communicate properly.

Mr. Tim, who works for toy company Lego, said that he had never known his father as a healthy man.

The 73-year-old physicist was diagnosed with motor neuron disease in 1963.

Since 1985, Mr. Hawking has used a computer speech system to speak in a distinctive electronic voice.

Mr. Tim admitted that as a child he used his father's wheelchair as a go-kart and programmed swear words into his famous voice machine.

"My dad was able to speak with his own, natural voice for those first years, but it was incredibly difficult to understand what he was saying - particularly for me at such a young age. As a three-year-old, I had no understanding of what he was saying," Mr. Tim was quoted as saying by 'metro.co.uk'.

"I didn't really have any communication with him for the first five years of my life. It was only when he got his voice synthesizer that I was actually able to start having conversations with him." Mr. Tim added.

"It was somewhat ironic that dad losing his voice was actually the start of us being able to form a relationship," Mr. Tim said.

Mr. Tim is the third of Hawking's children with his first wife, Jane Wilde. Their romance forms the basis of the book and film 'The Theory of Everything'.

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