Why "Daisy" in 2001: A Space Odyssey?  Why did the HAL 9000
computer sing "Daisy Bell" in the 1968 science fiction film
2001: A Space Odyssey, written by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C.
Clarke?  Maybe this video clip, taken from a documentary where
Arthur C. Clarke is visiting Bell Labs back in the early 60s,
will give you an answer to that question.  Link [YouTube] - via
Fanboy  Newest 5 Newest 5 Comments  The voice synthesis part
seems to be in its entirety on the record Album "First
Philadelphia Computer Music Festival" published by Creative
Computing in 1979. It also includes a really nice computer
generated Toccata. Hey it's on-line here:   The last track is
the one.  make sure to check out: J.S. Bach/Toccata & Fugue in d
Minor J.S. Bach/Suite for Orchestra #2 in b minor (excerpt)
Johann Wanhal/Rondo from Sonata in B flat for Clarinet and Piano
Abusive comment hidden. (Show it anyway.) I heard the same
recording around 1965-6, when my father was doing his doctoral
research on computer voice recognition at