Making a PC generate sounds that resemble human speech is relatively simple. But making a machine sound convincingly human is very tricky. Yet IBM claims to have coded a synthetic voice that is the ...

Douglas Rain, a Canadian actor best known for voicing the HAL 9000 computer in Stanley Kubrick's classic film "2001: A Space Odyssey," died on Sunday. He was 90. The Stratford Festival in Ontario, ...

The man behind one of film's creepiest voices has died at the age of 90. Canadian Douglas Rain was the voice of HAL, the sinister computer in cult classic 2001: A Space Odyssey. Born in Winnipeg, Rain ...

Douglas Rain, a Shakespeare actor who provided the voice of the homicidal computer HAL in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, died on Sunday. He was 90. "Canadian theatre has lost one of its ...

Douglas Rain, who performed for 32 seasons with the Stratford Festival in Ontario but was perhaps most famous for one faceless movie role — the voice of the HAL 9000 computer in Stanley Kubrick’s ...

Douglas Rain, the Canadian actor who provided the voice to the HAL 9000 computer in Stanley Kubrick‘s classic 2001: A Space Odyssey, died Sunday at the age of 90. The Stratford Festival in Ontario, ...