An Australian computer programmer, Peter Shann Ford, has found the missing "A" from Neil Armstrong's first words on the moon.In 1969, Armstrong reportedly said, "That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind"--which, grammatically speaking, is the same thing as saying,"That’s one small step for mankind, one giant leap for mankind." Armstrong always has maintained that he had included a missing "A"--for a man.
According to The New York Times, "Mr. Ford said he downloaded the audio recording from a NASA Web site and analyzed it with software that allows disabled people to communicate through computers using nerve impulses. In a graphical representation of the famous phrase, Mr. Ford said he found evidence that the missing 'a' was spoken and transmitted to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration."
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Peter Shann Ford's "analysis" of Neil Armstrong's moon landing speech is completely unscientific, and not a proof at all. (1). No speech researcher would make a scientific claim using Goldwave software (like making a blockbuster movie in iMovie). (2). The audio used was 11.025 kHz, 8 bit quality. (3). The "control phrase" (for mankind) has shorter syllables because it has more of them. (4). Peter Shann Ford didn't use the first tool of any speech researcher - the spectrogram. (5). Peter's "research" was reviewed by an astronaut who emphasised the finding was "persuasive", and "Ms. Rano Singh, a Physiotherapist with a Masters in Biomechanics". (6). The mouth diagram is from a description of Korean alveolars, and Korean does not have the American English approximant /r/. (this point from here
and here .(7). There was no peer review by real speech analysis researchers. I believe the whole thing to be a dodgy publicity stunt for Peter Shann Ford and his Control Bionics company. Read more: here
Well, being from Wapakoneta, Ohio, if Neil said he said "it," I believe it.
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